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...does not know that by responding to her entreaties the lawyer would imperil her brother, who is the guilty client. This highly improbable quandary was deemed suitable for the transformation of Charles ("Buddy") Rogers from a wildly popular juvenile of early talkies into a somewhat hollow-eyed young character actor who does not find forbiddingly incongruous a role in which he is definitely connected with a crime and finally given a jail sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...Chez Montgomery," claims that he has worked every day except eleven in the past two years. He has succumbed to a few typical Hollywood eccentricities, such as ordering a steak for dessert, reading Russian history, wearing a bright yellow polo coat "so people will know I'm an actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 1, 1931 | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...weekly 10? wage in the Sunday School collection box at Sullivan, Ind.); Author Arthur Pound; Harold Cunningham, onetime master of S.S. Leviathan, and his successor, Albert Randall; Managing Editor Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal, Colyumist Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, Artist Tony Sarg, Funnyman Tip Bliss. Actor James Gleason, Funnyman Milt Gross, Banker Phelps Newberry of Detroit (Guardian Detroit Bank); Broker Edward H. Kittredge (now Augmented Bombarde of the Guild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Pumpers | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

Wilbur--"The Truth Game", Billie Burke and the English actor-play-Wright Ivor Novello in a comedy that amuses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 5/6/1931 | See Source »

...wife, who loves him and attempts to regenerate him again and again, and his friend, who loves his wife but also does his best to restore domestic happiness, are the other two main characters of the story. The friend is played by Gustav Diessel, an actor strongly reminiscent of Conrad Veidt, and a worthy rival of the German player. On the whole, the acting is extremely well done, especially so since all the parts are extremely difficult...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 5/5/1931 | See Source »

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