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Meanwhile, successive editions of the Manhattan press printed fresh explanations by Dean Moore. Said he: "There's nothing wrong with the book. Matter of fact, it's on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's preferred list. . . . It's a sugar-coated study of a social scene. . . . When you write a book for young people, that is, for the general public, you like to make the titles rather interesting...
...Hollywood's eight major producing companies, gathered in the office of Tsar Will Hays for the most impressive powwow of cinema bigwigs in a decade. Present were: Barney Balaban (Paramount), Nate J. Blumberg (Universal), Harry Cohn, Jack Cohn (Columbia), Samuel Goldwyn, Maurice Silverstone (United Artists), Nicholas M. Schenck (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Sidney R. Kent, Joseph M. Schenck (Twentieth Century-Fox), Leo Spitz (RKO Radio), Albert Warner, Harry M. Warner (Warner Bros.), Will H. Hays...
Listen, Darling (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Adolescent romance between Freddie Bartholomew, now 14½ and equipped with a changing voice, and Judy Garland, in a story by Katharine Brush...
Stablemates (Metro-GoIdwyn-Mayer) gives Wallace Beery a chance to duplicate, with a few trivial alterations, his famed role in The Champ (1931). In The Champ, Beery was a broken-down plug-ugly who achieved moral and physical regeneration through his desire to justify the adoration of little Jackie Cooper. In Stablemates, he is a dilapidated veterinary surgeon, restored to some degree of selfrespect by the grateful affection of Mickey Rooney and a race horse named Lady...
...Handle (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a brisk occupational comedy-melodrama investigating the hazards, practical and emotional, of the newsreel industry. As a guide to young men seeking a career that will combine adventure and desirable social contacts with high financial rewards, Too Hot to Handle can be dismissed as foolishly overenthusiastic. As entertainment-lavishly produced by Laurence Weingarten, compactly written by Laurence Stallings and John Lee Mahin, directed at breakneck speed by Jack Conway-it can be heartily recommended...