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...such is the quest for new titles to old dishes. And the tripe served up this time needs a new name, indeed. A lot of vacuous material is handled in a devil-may-care fashion, but the effect usually falls short of amusing. A soapy soap heiress (Bette) falls in love with a surly reporter (George Brent). She proposes to him in an up-side-down machine in an amusement park (where Bette is escaping from her normal position), in a manner so abrupt as to be calculated to take George's and your breath. The female proposal is standby...
Then came the dawn. Our solitary man rubbed his eyes and stretched lazily. Where the devil was he? The note caught his eye, and he read: "Meet you at the New Yorker, ten o'clock." Gentic reader, Lord forbid the reoccurrence of such a hopeless, stupid physiognomy across the face of any man! Troubles never come singly. He had three classes that very morning; he was on pro; he had exactly one dollar in his pocket, and here he was way down South in New York City. Things looked awfully ominous. He set out for the New Yorker...
Laurel and Hardy, flushed by the success of "The Devil's Brother," their first venture into light opera, have taken another plunge into musical fantasy and come up with "The Bohemian Girl," unquestionably their funniest production to date...
TUDOR GREEN-W. B. Maxwell-Appleton-Century ($2.50). Microcosmic picture of London suburbia, by an oldtime English author (The Devil's Garden, The Guarded Flame...
During the trial there was no direct evidence against Ratanji-Ruxton because nobody had seen him kill or dismember so much as a fly. The Crown produced the patched blouse in which a faceless head had been found wrapped in The Devil's Beef Tub and asked the stepmother of Mary Jane Rogerson to comment upon it as a witness before the jury. "Yes, that is the blouse," said Mrs. Rogerson. "I can tell because I put on the patch. It was an old blouse, but I bought it at a jumble sale for Mary - she had wanted...