Word: cooperativeness
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Peck's Bad Boy (Sol Lesser). Sure of pleasing the Legion of Decency and that large portion of the cinema public which considers Jackie Cooper's pout irresistibly affecting, Producer Sol Lesser quite properly thought it unnecessary to make this picture a faithful transcription of its original. Admirers of George Wilbur Peck's 1883 classic may therefore be disappointed to find it projected upon the screen as an up-to-date tearjerker, in which young Bill Peck experiences every childhood misery known to Hollywood, from a cuff on the ear to forced separation from his mongrel...
Nearing the end of his fabulous career as a child actor, Jackie Cooper*, now 9, according to the Motion Picture Almanac, but so mature that gestures with his tongue will soon seem idiotic, makes Bill Peck a lovable urchin, sure to appeal to all chronic admirers of juvenile pictures. For making Peck's Bad Boy enjoyable also to less susceptible cinemaddicts, small Jackie Searl deserves the credit. A brat whose thin, disdainful, pasty face has made him villain in so many films that he has been called the Boris Karloff of his generation, he acts with his customary blood...
...curiously, was 1931 when it rolled up a profit of $22,600,000. Even last year it made $14,000,000. Until last spring P. & G. was always headed by a descendant of one of the two Cincinnati founders, with the Procters generally in the ascendency. But Chairman William Cooper Procter died childless and the management is now in the hands of Richard Redwood Deupree, a conservative steeped in good Procter paternalism...
Backers of the Terminal's search were Minor Cooper Keith, grandnephew, heir and namesake of the man who founded United Fruit Co., and a salvage company whose president, Thomas P. Connolly, had invented a new kind of diving-suit. Weighing 675 Ib. on deck, the suit has a head and body of steel, with grotesque protuberances for eyes and something that looks like a nose. Of rubber reinforced by interwoven copper strips, the arms and legs become flexible when subjected to high underwater pressure. The two parts of the suit join at the waist instead of around the neck...
Modern: "Now and Forever"--Gary Cooper. Shirley Temple, and Carole Lombard are the leading attractions in this film. On the same bill is "The Case of the Howling Dog," a mystery drama, with Warren Williams and Mary Astor in the chief parts...