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...Marengo Valley near Ashland, Wis., one Arvo Juoni, Finnish farmer, took a bride, remained with her at the farmhouse of her father, John Peterson, for a quiet, peaceful honeymoon. As Juoni & bride were about to retire there appeared outside the house a band of Finnish youths and maidens, beating tin pans, blowing horns, and demanding $15 tribute to stop. Father Peterson indignantly refused, so the charivari continued all night while father, bride & groom vainly tried to sleep...
...Honeymoon Lane (Paramount) owes its existence almost exclusively to Funnyman Eddie Dowling. He wrote it, played it as a musical comedy for 52 weeks, turned it into a cinema leaving out all the songs except Honeymoon Lane. It is a sentimental but engaging work, at times lively with the childish antics of Ray Dooley (Mrs. Eddie Dowling), at times in the nature of a Dowling soliloquy on the virtues of faith and of cherry pie. It relates the adventures of an enterprising youth who, discharged as croupier in the gambling rooms of a resort hotel, becomes manager of a rival...
Eddie Dowling looks a bit like Manhattan's Mayor Jimmy Walker, has the same sort of insistently infectious grin. He, too, interests himself in politics, as active chairman of the New York State Democratic Theatrical League. The Dowling political loyalty perhaps more than the hygienic merits of Honeymoon Lane, caused New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt to wire quotable congratulations after viewing the picture. His able campaigning for Governor Smith and Roosevelt, his huge popularity (particularly among Roman Catholics) caused Funnyman Dowling to be mentioned a year ago as a possible candidate for Governor of Rhode Island...
...Browning) and "Sugar Plum'' McGinnis ("Peaches" Heenan), whose queasy romance and parting were practically engineered in the Comet's editorial rooms. With the eager connivance of the exhibitionist Uncle Cocoa, the Comet's reporters wrote his and his wife's "own stories" of their honeymoon, contrived new bedroom stunts to keep them on the front pages. So, too, for need of a current "master mind of crime," a dullwitted hoodlum named "Bum" Cadman was built up into a king of outlaws. So, too, were girls in the street paid by photographers to sob publicly...
Married. Roscoe Pound, 60, Dean of Harvard Law School since 1916, member of the Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission (which expired with June? see p. 13); and Mrs. James E. Miller, 49, widow of Dean Pound's old friend Dr. James E. Miller, organizer of Government hospitals for War veterans. Honeymoon: to Europe. Dean Pound's first wife, who was Grace Gerard of Columbus, Neb., died...