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Tracy: "A row of farmers is a circus man's rosary. . . . Never give a sucker an even break, 'cause it's dog eat dog all along the line. . . . For every kid that's born with a dollar there's twins born on the other side of the street aiming to take it away from him. ... So the only way to make a ten strike is to strike up the band. . . . Anyway, what the heck...
...Kid from Spain (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn). If you like Eddie Cantor you will probably like this picture in which, surrounded by prettier girls than usual, he performs thoroughly typical Cantor antics. Tricked into acting as chauffeur for a crew of bandits, he has to escape across the border into Mexico while rolling his popeyes, giving exaggerated gulps. To delude a detective he is forced to pose as a torero. No one who knows Cantor technique needs to be told what he forgets to wear into the arena: his trousers. The funniest part of The Kid from Spain...
...Kid from Spain is longer than it should have been. Its principal incentives to hilarity are its hero's facial expressions of bewilderment, despair and false assurance. Sample joke...
...Said a Mouthful (First National) is an infinitely less handsome picture than The Kid from Spain (see col. 2) but it follows the same pattern. Instead of being forced by circumstance and his own idiocy to be a bullfighter, its addled hero (Joe E. Brown) finds himself the favored entrant in a marathon swimming race. This is a predicament: he does not know how to swim...
Died. James (";Jimmy") De Forest, 68, trainer of boxers; of general complications; in Long Branch. N. J. An unnoted featherweight boxer, he trained Leach Cross, Frankie Burns, Joe Shevlin. Charlie White. Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), "Pal" Moore, Ted ("Kid") Lewis, Jack Dempsey, Luis Angel Firpo. Little Trainer De Forest was the model for all trainers: capable of savage scorn, furious calm and a disarming mildness in handling fighters. Describing a knockout blow, he once said. "It just makes you dumb and useless and sort of discouraged. You don't feel...