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...Hi, Nellie (Warner). Last year newspaper pictures were about Broadway columnists. This winter they are about city room celebrities demoted to writing advice to the lovelorn. Part comedy, part melodrama, Hi, Nellie shows how Bradshaw (Paul Muni) retrieves his city editorship by digging up the inside story on a vanished judge whose corpse he finds in a graveyard where it was placed by gangsters...
Adapted by Aben Finkel and Sidney Sutherland, two able ex-journalist scenarists, directed by Mervyn LeRoy and acted, with characteristic authority, by Paul Muni, it would be rational to expect Hi, Nellie to be plausible. Instead it is another anthology of expletive improbabilities. The city room of the Times-Star is conducted as though it were a day nursery. The girl (Glenda Farrell) who precedes Bradshaw as "Nellie Nelson" is overfond of inelegant cliches like "So you can't take it." When Bradshaw sits down to write a column, he does it with one sheet of paper...
...hi-di-ho, hotcha, how ya doin, hey hey," that the college boys want from the dance orchestra today. Rhythm, rhythm, rhythm, and more rhythm that is the spirit of the musical age. The day of the "Peanut Vender," and "Yes, We Have No Bananas," is over. 'The Big Bad Wolf," "Mine," and "Heat Wave" -- they're the kind of songs people like now. Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington have ushered in a new era of popular music...
Elected chairman of the Yale Daily News for next year was Sophomore Jonathan Brewster Bingham, 19, youngest of the seven tall lean sons of tall lean Hiram ("Hi") Bingham, Yaleman (1898), onetime Yale Professor, onetime (1924-33) U. S. Senator from Connecticut. Career doings of the other six Bingham sons: Woodbridge, 32, is studying for a Ph. D. in Chinese history at Stanford University. Hiram Jr., 30, one of the U. S. Foreign Service, is at the U. S. Embassy in London. Alfred Mitchell, 29, an attorney, helps publish the pinko fortnightly Common Sense in Manhattan. Charles Tiffany...
...students at Harvard who receive the finest education take such risks. They ought to know better. I guess the trouble is that their fathers have too much money and they don't take care of their cars. They don't park their cars in safe places while there are hi-jackers going around...