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...would be worth mentioning for one fact alone: it brings to a wider audience Comic Bert Lahr's theory that only a barytone can chop a tree. It has other virtues as well: Jimmy Savo, exquisite pantomimist whose film career was nearly blighted two years ago by a luckless appearance in Ben Hecht's & Charles MacArthur's haphazard Once in a Blue Moon; Billy House, fleshy Mr. Bones of old-time minstrelsy; addlepated Comedienne Alice Brady; Mischa Auer, well cast as a lean and bony swami. Foster Fathers Savo, Lahr, House and Auer combine their comic efforts...
...Lieut. A. C. Keller spotted the survivors from his naval plane, dropped smoke bombs and plunged down in dangerous power dives which frightened off the sharks long enough for the Mendota to reach the scene, pull the exhausted mariners from the water 40 miles from the grave of the luckless Tzenny Chandris...
...actress (Gloria Dickson) under the vampirish influence of a fading harridan of the theatre (Josephine Victor). How the aging harpy enslaves the girl, breaks up her engagement, holds her captive even after death, is the rest of the sad story. Redhaired, ingratiating Theodore Newton (Dead End), appeared as the luckless suitor, tries in vain to better matters with dignified restraint. Gloria Dickson, the Pocatello, Idaho girl who stepped from the Federal Theatre into Hollywood fame (They Won't Forget), endowed the young actress with dazzling blondness and a fresh, strong prairie accent. As her sister, Edith Barrett, despite...
...millionaire with an income of $10,000 a day, Sundays included. The Indian (Nat Pendleton, perennial fall guy of films) joins their fraternity, of which the only other members are the Ritzes, gives them $80,000 he is carrying as pocket money, commissions them to save the job of luckless Coach O'Hara (Fred Stone). In proper raccoons, courtesy of their protege, they buy off the mercenary dean with promises of a new gymnasium, exact promises of football careers for themselves and friend, continued employment for Coach O'Hara. Pendleton becomes the star back, winning games virtually singlehanded...
While investigating the dark bog of protective committees and corporate reorganizations, the Securities & Exchange Commission took a long look at the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, the quasi-public body whose duty it is to salvage something for the luckless owners of foreign dollar bonds. On the whole the Council received a clean bill of health from SEC. But the SECommissioners are perfectionists at heart, and in their report to Congress last May they had several suggestions to make...