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...Invisible Menace (Warner Bros.) involves Boris Karloff and a job lot of studio doughboys in a murder mystery in a U. S. arsenal. Unfortunately for the film, erstwhile Bogeyman Karloff is not the menace; fortunately, he is not invisible either...
...bent on breaking this one-track monopoly was the Hollywood Turf Club, a syndicate originally formed in 1935 but more recently reorganized and capitalized at $2,250,000. Headed by politically powerful Jack Warner, sporty production chief of the $177,000,000 Warner Bros. Corporation, and a board of directors of impeccable backgrounds, the reorganized Hollywood Turf Club convinced the Racing Board of its financial and moral soundness, got permission to build a race track in Los Angeles County. But the Board shyly held up its allocation of racing dates. At long last, last week, the Racing Board granted...
Swing Your Lady (Warner Bros.). When Ed (Humphrey Bogart) and his assistant Popeye (Frank McHugh) wanted to keep their wrestler Joe Skopapolous (Nat Pendleton) from finding out what they were talking about, all they had to do was spell the words. Joe knew that he was matched to wrestle a blacksmith in Plunket, Mo. on Decoration Day. What he did not know was that the blacksmith was a dame (Louise Fazenda). Out skipping rope, Joe met Sadie, paid her the sincerest tribute womanhood could inspire in him: "You're sure a big one all right...
...market a few years ago by famed old Parker Bros. Inc. was a game called Monopoly, ingeniously designed to appeal to the baldest acquisitive instincts. It was an instantaneous success. Last week President Roosevelt, from motives as mixed as they were imperative, dusted off an older and political form of Monopoly which has been played by successive Administrations with varying degrees of enthusiasm for upward of half a century...
...funny possibilities in the current trend. Last week former Fawcett Publications Business Manager William Cotton did just that, put on newsstands mainly in the Midwest 200,000 copies of a 10? bimonthly, Peek-A Look at Life. In Peek Publisher Cotton, now eastern representative of Illinois' Kable Bros. Co., printers, does a picture Ballyhoo of LIFE in "Peek Along America's News Front." Sample caption: "Larry (Tarzan) Crabbe holds Betty Grable up on the Paramount lot so the cameraman can see what made Tarzan wild." Other features: "Peek-uliar Fishing," "Peek at a (Animal) Party," "Peeking at Pictures...