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...telephone booth and a chipped enamel cuspidor make up its office equipment. Around the walls are photographs of unidentified prizefighters and film actresses, a framed obituary of Variety's late Slangster Jack Conway, a yellowed clipping of a newspaper sermon entitled "Success," a picture of a nude dancer with a large ostrich-plume fan, inscribed: ''To the reporters of West Side Court, gratefully and sincerely, Sally Rand...
...picture features Maurice Ravel's famed composition (written in 1928), calls a cabaret a night club, omits the maxixes and bunny-hugs of the period in favor of jazz steps and a fan dance by Sally Rand. A Belgian-born coal miner named Raoul (George Raft) becomes a dancer. As he rises in the world, he casts off partner after partner because they try to mix pleasure and business. He acquires an able partner in Helen (Carole Lombard), but loses her when he talks of going to war as a good publicity stunt. When Raoul returns with...
...sonorous speaking voice. Variety reports that her B.O. is very poor in American pictures, and this seems unaccountable after her success in "Congress Dances" unless one considers that a guttural vocabulary disguises a voice very effectively at times. In this movie, Miss Harvey aspires to be a great dancer and is well on her way to fame when she falls, breaks a leg, and is temporarily crippled. An admirer of hers who runs a puppet show, invites her to take up his profession. There are several of Podrecca's puppet interludes which are quite refreshing...
Anna Sten (real name Anjuschka Stenski) was born in Kiev in 1910. Her father was a Russian dancer. Her mother was a Swede. Anna Sten became a movie actress at 15. Since then the principal complications of her career have been linguistic...
...Prince George, youngest son of Their Majesties, whom South American women called "far more handsome than the Prince of Wales and a better dancer," sailed from England for South Africa last week without his elder brother. If Prince George strikes the fancy of any of the dominions to which he is going, King George-it is no Court secret-will appoint him its Governor General...