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...Tell It To Sweeney", the Conklin-Bancroft opus at the Metropolitan this week, depicts the trials and tribulations of two temperamental throttle pushers at a rapid tempo. "Come on, Salome, get hot," shouts Cannon-Ball Casey, engineer de. luxe, to his sawed-off but antagonistic fireman, Luke Beamish, who blows off quite as much steam as either the classy "Oriole Limited" or the relic of the Gay Nineties, the "Isobel." And between "the greatest mistake since Vesuvius" and the little "pipesqueale" there materializes enough excitement to keep the two locomotives "throttle up" throughout most of the picture and the audience...
...Fireman's Band began to play in the afternoon. Old soldiers straddled the backs of their chairs, waved flasks or sandwiches in time to the music, told one another of brave things done long-ago. As the tinny jangle of "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" stopped suddenly on a loud note, there was a great roaring of competitive anecdotes. Bellowed one bottle-nosed sport, ". . . And boy, I almost brought her home and married her. Yes, and by God if the damn kid didn't get himself shot over in France, after...
...physician must not expect as much money as a man of corresponding ability who is engaged in business. He must not expect as much leisure. He must realize he is an emergency man. Like the fireman, he must come sliding down the brass pole at the first sound of alarm...
...book form they are not quite so funny. Artist Peter Arno created them with so few strokes of his charcoal and such a rare vein of middle-aged-female innuendo, that their gusto seems stifled when, located in a charity home, with a zither player, a retired fireman, an orphan oaf called Fester, a man with an elephant, and a Park Avenue dowager for companions, they become heroines of a story of which the dizziness does not compensate for the length. The upshot of the story is that Mrs. Flusser inherits $20,000,000 and the old gals pack...
...First Flame. Harry Langdon clowns wistfully as lover and amateur fireman in this hilarious gag comedy. Producer Mack Sennett made this newly released comedy many months...