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...Fierce-Arrow were chagrined, however, to have their pseudo-parent in receivership. Last week President Arthur J. Chanter of Fierce-Arrow announced that with the backing of George Franklin Rand, head of the Marine Midland group of banks, Jacob Frederick Schoellkopf, Seymour H. Knox and Roland Lord O'Brian, Studebaker's Fierce-Arrow holdings had been bought cut. Fierce-Arrow had a net profit of $4,770 for the second quarter of 1933 compared to a loss of $878,800 for the same period a year ago. Price paid was $1,000,000 cash; other considerations...
...resembles Forty-Second Street and Gold Diggers of 1933 in plot, pattern and environment; that it has the same type of dances, staged by Bobby Connolly, and the same type of songs ("Dusty Shoes'" for a finale instead of ''Forgotten Men"); or that its ingenue, Mary Brian, not only looks like Ruby Keeler but has obviously been coached to. speak in the same soft monotone. The surprising aspect of Moonlight and Pretzels is that it makes plausible Hollywood's profound conviction that repetition is the secret of success. It copies Warner Brothers' two hits even...
...leading lady (Lilian Miles) persuades a gambler friend (Leo Carillo) to foil the Hobarts by buying a piece of the show himself. He promptly loses it in a crap game and Sport Powell (Herbert Rawlinson), who wins it, unnerves Dwight by trying to make a pretty chorus girl (Mary Brian) the leading lady. A tiny vein of originality can be detected in the conclusion. Sport Powell gallantly gives the show to his chorus girl who, instead of playing the lead, gives the show back to Dwight, because she loves him. Then comes "Dusty Shoes...
...sense knocked into her, she chirrups: "I don't care if I never read another poem again-so long as my stomach's full. Love is not a potato. You can't eat it." An unpoetical but potato-providing suitor is close at hand. Dr. Stevens (Brian Donlevy), family friend and star boarder...
...MEMOIRS OF SATAN-William Gerhardi & Brian Dunn-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). History through humorously satanic eyes...