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...Jose, Calif., M. T. Moran. 62, stage acrobat, turned a somersault over the back of his car when it was struck by a Southern Pacific R. R. train, saved himself from certain death. "Guess I've got a good racket at that," said M. T. Moran...
President of Great Lakes Pipe Line Co. is Daniel James Moran, president of Continental Oil Co. which is J. P. Morgan- dominated. Great Lakes Pipe Line chairman is Edwin B. Reeser, conservative but optimistic president of Barnsdall Corp., stout defender of the five-day week...
Anybody's War (Paramount). This rambling comedy involving two colored men ("Moran & Mack") and a Sealyham terrier in the U. S. Army is quietly and deftly directed by Richard Wallace. Other pictures like this have often degenerated into a series of disconnected gags, but Wallace keeps the action moving along, and when nothing else is happening entertains the spectator simply by his manipulation of photography. The activities of the dog-catcher of Buford, Tenn., his dog Deep Stuff and his best friend, persuaded to join by a recruiting sergeant who mentions easy eating, sleeping and band music, seem...
...team of George Searcy (Moran) and Charles E. Sellers (Mack) worked together in vaudeville and revues for twelve years. They were famed as the leading blackface 'pair in the U. S. long before the rise of Freeman F. Gosden (Amos) and Charles J. Correll (Andy), who two years ago earned $100 a week and who this year received a guarantee of $350,000 for their forthcoming RKO picture, Check and Double Check. Although the Moran & Mack badinage lacked continuity, some critics still think that Moran & Mack were much funnier than Amos 'n Andy. Last December Moran broke...
...police meanwhile progressed slowly in finding Lingle's killer. A grand jury indicted Frank Foster, arrested in Los Angeles as onetime owner of the "belly gun" with which Lingle was shot. The same day, detectives arrested one Jack Zuta, Moran-Aiello gangster, suspected instigator of the murder. Soon released, Zuta was being given "safe conduct" through the loop district in a detective lieutenant's car, when three men opened fire on him. A street car motorman was killed. While the detective fought it out with the assailants, Zuta fled, unhurt, to hide from police and gunmen alike...