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Captain McGregor (Gary Cooper) is a hardbitten, warm-hearted soldier. Lieut. Forsythe (Franchot Tone) is a flip Oxonian, with good manners and a lionheart. Lieut. Stone (Richard Cromwell) is the tenderfoot son of the stern regimental commander (Sir Guy Standing). The three engage in sport and pleasant banter until a rascally potentate kidnaps young Stone and the other two attempt to rescue him. When the potentate puts lighted bamboo splinters under McGregor's finger nails, he makes a face but tells no secrets. Neither does Forsythe, but flabby Stone despicably reveals the whereabouts of a British ammunition train...
...Paramount and Fenway Theaters will present "Gentlemen Are Born," a picture which should be of interest to every college student. Dealing frankly with the difficulties which beset newly-graduated college men, the plot is both thought-provoking and enlightening. Prominent among the members of the cast are Franchot Tone, Jean Muir, Margaret Lindsay, and Ann Dvorak. The companion feature will be "Hell in the Heavens," starring Richard Barthlemess...
Airplanes today joined the search for David Riesman, Jr. '31, of Philadelphia, and Stanislas P. Franchot '32 of Boston, reported to be lost in the Timagami region of Ontario. The two law students left August 26 on a canoe trip with food for two weeks and Franchot was expected home for the wedding of his sister last Saturday. When he failed to appear the Canadian government was notified but forest rangers in the Timagami Reserve have so far failed to locate the pair. Airplanes and all available help were being enlisted today in the continued search and friends, recalling...
Riesman and Franchot were members of the Board of Editors of the CRIMSON when undergraduates...
...niche for her. The remarkable thing about her subsequent career is that, instead of becoming Hollywood's No. 1 siren, she has become its No. 1 comedienne. In The Girl from Missouri, written by Anita Loos & John Emerson, Lionel Barrymore wiggles his eyebrows as skillfully as ever, and Franchot Tone, as usual, gives an ingratiatingly juvenile performance. But it is the presence of Jean Harlow that supplies the picture with its vital humor. Good shot: Eadie jumping off the Paige yacht when she learns that the youngster she mistook for a bookkeeper...