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...time when students nerves are on the ragged edge, when Cambridge town reminds one of the fiery furnace of Biblical fame, and when the fate of a course or a career hangs in the balance of a short three hours, it seems obvious that the college officials must use kid gloves in handling the undergraduates, if the best results in the examinations are to be obtained. And kid gloves have not been much in evidence in the last few days...
Captains Courageous (Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy); Wake Up and Live (Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Jack Haley, Alice Faye); The Prince and, the Pauper (Billy & Bobby Mauch, Errol Flynn); A Star Is Born (Janet Gaynor, Fredric March); Make Way For Tomorrow (Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi); Kid Galahad (Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Wayne Morris); Under the Red Robe (Raymond Massey, Annabella, Conrad Veidt...
...reported it. It was watched by Clark Gable & Carole Lombard, Tyrone Power & Sonja Henie, Robert Taylor & Barbara Stanwyck. It caused Constance Bennett to screech and Darryl Zanuck to wear his Tyrolean hat. Ringside seats at Wrigley Field cost $100.* It was enhanced by an airplane with a streamer advertising Kid Galahad (TIME...
Principal virtue of Kid Galahad is a verisimilitude which is not confined to Wayne Morris' ring appearances, and these are among the most realistic scenes of the sort yet portrayed on the screen. The picture exhibits pugilism's backstage activities in bars, night clubs and areaways with such faithfulness that an audience of sportswriters, managers and boxing officials invited to a Manhattan preview last week amused themselves by trying to identify the characters. Said Madison Square Garden's jaunty Fight-Promoter Jimmy Johnston, who is currently embroiled with the New York State Athletic Commission, when Nick Donati...
...realism of Kid Galahad was achieved not by hiring a real fighter to perform in it, as Max Baer did in The Prizefighter and the Lady, but by giving a course in pugilism to the unknown young Los Angeles actor who had been picked for the title role. Handsome Wayne Morris, 23, whose athletic activities at Los Angeles Junior College (see p. 44) had been confined to football, basketball and fencing, trained for a month before shooting started. In the picture, his fight for the heavyweight championship was far more strenuous than most real heavyweight contests. It lasted a week...