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...other respects The Music Goes 'Round has little novelty to recommend it beyond the presence in the cast of Harry Richman, whose Times Square baritone and face of a dissolute mastiff have not been on display for cinemaddicts since Putting on the Ritz in 1930. He is a song & dance man who salvages a troupe of cheap melodrama actors from a Mississippi River showboat, puts them in his Broadway production, gets remorse when the audience laughs at the heroine (Rochelle Hudson...
...Minute" is a delightful farce starring Roger Pryor and Leila Hyams. Roger undertakes to spend $1,000 a minute for twelve hours, to settle a bet between two plutocrats. A yacht, a race horse, a Duesenberg, a mastiff, an elephant, a Trans-continental airplane, a $30,000 fur coat, and sundry other trivial bring the story to the point where Roger has to have $50,000 to buy a tube of radium (a gift to a hospital) and has a capital of only...
...Changchun), new capital of Manchukuo, settled down and sobered up after an exhausting fortnight. With great relief Emperor Kang Teh put aside his dragon robes, wandered about his garden in a U. S. sack suit with a green fountain pen protruding from a vest pocket. After playing with his mastiff and smoking a great many cigarets, he sent for and read all the foreign comments he could find, and ate. with little relish, a dinner of sharks' fins, "Buddha's ears" mushrooms, dove's eggs, octopus tentacles and lily roots...
People who like pugs, poodles and dachshunds last week hailed increased entry lists for all three as another sign of their reviving popularity. New breeds entered as a class at the show this year were bull mastiff and Great Pyrenees. Brindled and powerful, with a worried wrinkle in its big, square forehead, the bull mastiff is the result of a cross between mastiff and bulldog. The Great Pyrenees looks something like a white Newfoundland, is an able sheep herder in its native mountains. Lately imported from Europe, its U. S. owners have found it an amiable companion, an excellent watchdog...
...England 350 years ago. About 100 years ago its popularity waned and the type died out in England. At the same time, German fanciers adopted them. Today their popularity is increasing especially in Germany, Holland, Austria. Germany has formed special clubs for pedigreed boxers and their owners. Like the mastiff which they resemble, they are terrific fighters, make good watchdogs. They are affectionate, easy to train. A full grown boxer is about the height of a Doberman Pinscher but has a much broader body, sturdier legs...