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Pardon Us (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the first full-length comedy made by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Hopelessly in effectual in all their doings, they are particularly and painfully inefficient in this picture. First shown planning to manufacture homebrew, they are next seen being sentenced to prison because of their clumsiness. Added to the basic handicap of the Laurel face - blank, ugly, absurd -is the handicap in Pardon Us of a loose tooth which causes him to punctuate all his sentences with a vulgar and sarcastic noise...
...Under the headline CALL LOANS IN JUNE HELD AT 4% RATE appeared a story beginning: "Call Loan rates on the New York Stock Exchange were at H per cent throughout all of June. . . . The renewal average for call loans in June was 1.500 per cent. . . ." Below came a complete, full-length table showing the % call loan rate on each & every one of June's 30 days, arranged in this manner: June Renewals High Low Last
...Borotra 4-3 and 40-30 in the fourth set, he seemed certain to win in the next few minutes. Then another unaccountable thing happened. Running for a shot in the forecourt, Shields dropped a ball he was carrying, stepped on it, twisted his leg badly, tumbled full-length into...
...were exhorted; company officials read numberless addresses carefully prepared by their secretaries; hundreds of millions of dollars worth of directors, writers, actors, technicians were re-engaged; resounding phrases were thumped like drums - "banner year . . . ," "greatest ever. . . ." Out of all of which the principal producers promised the following number of full-length films for 1931-32: Fox 48 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 48 Paramount 70 Warner Bros. 35 First National 35 RKO Radio 36 RKO Pathe 21 Columbia 26 Producers do not consider that television will come into contact with films for a long time yet. Paramount believes more pictures should have...
...these stories (notably those by Erich Maria Remarque, H. M. Tomlinson, Andre Maurois) are really excerpts lifted from longer books, but most are full-length. They cover: The Home Front; Behind the Front Line; In the Front Line; Battle, Raid & Patrol; The Lighter Side of War, et al. Some of the authors: John Galsworthy, W. Somerset Maugham, Ernest Hemingway, Andre Maurois, the late Joseph Conrad, Edith Wharton, Laurence Stallings, John W. Thomason Jr., the late C. E. Montague, Leonard Hastings Nason, "Saki" (the late H. H. Munro), Henri Barbusse, Liam O'Flaherty...