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Stepping Sisters (Fox) is a frantic little farce, derived from the comic strips via Broadway, where a play by the same name enjoyed an almost surreptitious run a year ago. The fun in Stepping Sisters largely at the expense of a chorus girl turned socialite (Louise Dresser), is of the "Bringing up Father" variety. Two of the socialite's onetime confreres?one of them (Jobyna Howland) turned tragedienne the other (Minna Gombell) still a blowzy trouper who swaggers with her hips-help stage an allegory...
Sooky (Paramount) is a sequel to Skippy, directed by Norman Taurog, with Jackie Cooper and Robert Coogan impersonating the principal characters in Percy Crosby's famed comic strip. Small Coogan's most notable characteristic is a treble voice so high that at times it amounts to" a whistle. Cooper has a thoughtful little face, often pinched by childish melancholy; in addition, he is a superb actor. This picture has the defect of most sequels, in that episodes similar to the ones which seemed spontaneous in Skippy, now appear to be part of a formula. They are still affecting...
...Rollins says in an advertising publication that the "Congressional Record" should have a new title page, and Representative John J. Boylan advocates enlivening the tedious columns with photographs, cartoons, and comic strips. These prophets of modern journalism realize that with a few modifications the utterances of American's leaders might be read as eagerly as "True Story" and "Film...
...subscriber and a consistent reader of your much-admired "mag" I think it is within my province to criticize your remark on p. 23 of your Nov. 16 issue of TIME in regard to motion picture heads commenting on RKO-Radio combine in which you state and comment upon comic-strip remarks of Jewish motion picture heads such as "Vait till ve see vat Radio vill...
...false beard, drawls genially and devoutly, becomes a skinny, saintly Yankee sage. He delivers a little sermon, pointed up with earthy rural witticisms. Leading members of his cast of ten singer-actors are "Ma" Parker, Capt. Bang (famed for his rendition of "Crossing the Bar"). Lizzie Peters, a comic spinster (played by Mrs. Sophia Mecorney Lord, mother of two), and Cefus, Lizzie's half-witted brother. To the accompaniment of an antique melodeon, Seth and his neighbors sing hymns. Titles suggest the neighborly, revivalistic tone: "You Go To Your Church and I'll Go To Mine" (a prime...