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...when Gargan, drunk, tries to get up courage to resign while Collier tries to get up courage to discharge him. Mr. Rothafel selected The Animal Kingdom as the first attraction at the RKO Roxy theatre, which opened its doors in Rockefeller Center last week two days after the monster Radio City Music Hall (TIME...
...locale of the new theatre, whose 6,200 seats make it the world's largest, the "Rothafeller" Center, for celebrated Showman Samuel Lionel O'Roxy") Rothafel was to produce this week-and as many weeks thereafter as he could make the $85,000 "nut" (overhead)-a monster variety bill twice daily...
...interesting and elaborate caution to curious motorists. In addition to its ramps and airshafts, it contains a mechanic stupider than most real ones (Guinn Williams), a speakeasy with onyx bar, a suite of offices in which a racketeer (Alan Dinehart) operates with the assistance of a dumb monster (George Rosener) and a paint shop in the attic where purloined vehicles can be made unrecognizable in three and one-quarter minutes. Fast Life (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a flagrantly foolish little picture in which Sandy Norton (William Haines) wins a big speedboat race with his coy fiancee (Madge Evans) sitting beside...
...hobbling along near Aneityum in the New Hebrides (midway between Australia and the Fijis). A sudden squall blew up. dashed the ship on a coral reef. She began to sink. Captain A. M. Stanton had to get his men ashore. First the crew tried to lower a boat. Monster waves lashed it, smashed it to bits. When a second attempt failed, an officer took a line in his teeth, dived into the swirling sea. He swam for half an hour, at last reached the beach 150 yd. away, crawled up cut and bleeding to make the line fast. It took...
...California votes. At Sacramento, with some bitterness, he had said: "There has been increasing untruth and misrepresentation in some of the Press of California, and particularly by the Press of William Randolph Hearst. One would have thought that the President of the United States coming from California was a monster. If Mr. Hearst represented the ideals and the character of California, he would have been President long ago." Toward dusk, in the big house on the Palo Alto hill, blackboards were set up, just as they had been one triumphant evening in 1928. On that occasion the happy guests...