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...Kid Galahad (Warner). Prizefight pictures, once a staple product of the cinema industry, have been out of fashion since The Prizefighter and the Lady. First of its sort since the resounding failure of that venture in 1933. Kid Galahad, adapted from a realistic Saturday Evening Post story by Francis Wallace, improves on the old formula by concerning itself less with the ring prowess of its hero, Ward Guisenberry (Wayne Morris) than with the grimy background of the fight industry as exemplified by his manager, Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson). Nicknamed Kid Galahad when, as an unsophisticated bellhop, he knocks...
With all the vigor of a Roy Howard or Robert McCormick, Associate Editor Benjamin ("The Coast Kid") Benson of the Hobo News indignantly declared that things had come to a pretty pass when a journalist could not sell his own paper on the sidewalks of New York. Ready to back his editor to the limit of his resources, the News's Publisher Patrick Bernard ("The Roaming Dreamer") Mulkern and his associates furnished $10 bail when the judge refused to see the case in its broader aspects, issued a ringing statement...
...Stinko! That's what he is. Always drunk. Funniest thing you ever did see to see him fall down the steps of his house! Look at his poor kid...
...boyhood were some of its first settlers-dramatic living links to the earliest beginnings of a "beautiful, somber" country. With few playmates, George and Alfred depended mostly on each other and their imaginations, but in their eyes they lived in a world twice as exciting as any city kid's. In the best descriptions that have been written of the Northwest's giant forests and mountain scenery Author Binns makes convincing their swelling pride in the beauty of a land where high-speed logging operations had not yet penetrated. Here they counted for something. They were building...
...Western Union 50,000 copies to 50,000 people with annual incomes of $7,500 or more. After the three months are up, Publisher Logan will try another 50,000, then another. Not only does he expect that advertisers will look with favor on this hand-picked slice of kid glove circulation, but he thinks that he will pick up some 5,000 permanent readers from each free list. His goal: 250,000 readers. "The present so-called 'class' magazines with small circulations are licked," says...