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Golden Boy (Adolphe Menjou, Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden; TIME, Sept...
...beautiful pair of hands, which he can use to equal effect playing the violin or smashing a face. The violin seems likely to win out with thoughtful Joe until Manager Tom Moody (Adolphe Menjou), threatened with the loss of a promising meal ticket, gets his girl, Lorna Moon (Barbara Stanwyck), to stiffen Joe's spine. In Clifford Odets' play, Joe never got much out of his fighting hands but a shiny roadster that he piled up against a tree. In the cinema Joe fares better...
...served a term (1929-31) in Federal prison on McNeil Island, Wash. for income tax evasion, divorced his wife in 1932 because she called him "ex-convict." His current girl: pretty, shapely, dark-haired Barbara Land...
...many a sentimental reader, the books of Novelist Harold Bell Wright (The winning of Barbara Worth, The calling of Dan Matthews) made many a dream seem to get up and walk. Last week the aged author's solemn son Gilbert went his father one better: he made real people talk like waterfalls, braying donkeys, barking dogs, slamming doors, locomotive whistles. The appropriate place: Hollywood...
...Gentlemen gives Helen Hayes (Mrs. MacArthur) her first new play after three years and 969 performances of Victoria Regina. She was glad to escape from that "rarefied atmosphere," says she, "because I am fearful of becoming the centre of a cult." Ladies and Gentlemen, after opening in Santa Barbara, last week started a month's tryout on the West Coast-two weeks each in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Miss Hayes said her husband felt that, if she must play in his piece, it had better begin as far from Broadway as possible...