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...policeman herein finds fault with a nosey reporter. "I'm the Morning Eagle," says the reporter. "Go feather your nest," the policeman says, and throws him off the porch. Joan Blondell's round eyes give her, the astonished appearance proper to a female detective. George Brent, an actor currently being groomed as a competitor to Clark Gable, blunders about pleasantly as the police sergeant...
Better than any other actor in Hollywood, Stuart Erwin has mastered the expression of befuddlement. He was a bewildered drunk in innumerable pictures before his ability got him, in Make Me a Star, his first starring part. There are times when Erwin reads the pathos between his lines a little too vociferously but there are other times when his confident naiveté suggests a Chaplin who can talk. He makes Merton's grand gesture of presenting the extra girl with a wrist watch hilarious by the way he says: "It's a little token of my esteem...
...actor, a little older than she, who can toss back the conversational ball faster than she can throw. The children are mutually entranced, and the rest of their story follows their odd vagaries in that trance. In spite of all their elders' iron efforts to separate them they, like bits of quicksilver, run together again. After a bevy of tender, and to their elders, scandalous escapades, during one of which they even manage to spend an innocent night together in an empty house; after Halcyon turns her hand to the drama, and Eden makes a name acting...
Sued for Divorce. Paul Robeson, 34, Negro baritone, actor and athlete; by Eslanda Goode Robeson; in Manhattan. Reason: "ennui." Grounds: infidelity. Actor Robeson admitted he hoped to marry an English society woman, denied it was Negrophile Lady Nancy Cunard...
...leading article about the Bonus Army's march to Washington, which occurred in June; an article by Congressman La Guardia telling why he fought the Sales Tax last April; a refutation of the theory that all bankers are all-wise; an estimate of Clarence Darrow ("Portrait of a Great Actor") by Louis Adamic; an account of the witlessness of book publishers; a behind-scenes political review by Robert S. Allen, one of the authors of The Washington Merry-Go-Round; a dispassionate report of Harlan, Ky. mine disorders by Eve Garrette Grady; a sketch of California's Governor James ("Sunny...