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...rivermen appeared to take command of the mob, it surged into the court house, through the sheriff's living quarters, destroying everything before it. Governor Park ordered out the local militia tank company. Tankmen were lifted bodily out of their iron nests. After a four-hour siege, Sheriff Otto Theisen emerged from his smoky barricade...
Birthdays. Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 21; Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 21*, With her new husband, "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, Princess Barbara returned to the U. S. for a birthday party arranged last week by her amiable father, and to receive legally a third of the estate of her late grandfather, Frank Winfield (5? & 10?) Woolworth-about $20,000,000, protected by a marriage contract drawn up by wary Hutton lawyers...
Roberta (adapted by Otto Harbach from Alice Duer Miller's Gowns by Roberta, score by Jerome Kern; Max Gordon, producer) is another gallant try at making a handsome, funny and affecting play with music and dancing, girls and dresses. Plot: a U. S. college boy loses his girl because she thinks he is "small-town." To forget her, he visits his Aunt Minnie (Fay Templeton) who is Roberta, a famed Paris dressmaker. Planning to will her establishment to her assistant, a onetime Russian princess (Tamara), Aunt Minnie dies without signing the will, thus forcing her nephew-heir to turn...
...unquestionably adequate. Whether this anomaly is to be attributed to a general low standard of acting in the films or whether it is due to some innate ability in Mr. Baer, is a problem for individual solution. Myrna Loy and Walter Buston turn in their usual creditable performances, and Otto Kruger manages, in spite of the natural limitations of his trite role, to touch the high spots from time to time...
...plot deals both with gangsters and with prizefighters; consequently, it is pretty dull. Myrna Loy is the mistress of Otto Kruger, as the big-time crook and gambler, Willie Ryan. She meets Max Baer, whom she loves because "he is a big kid." In altruistic fashion, Ryan gives her up; naturally, she has her troubles with her boxer, since he is very healthy and cannot be satisfied with one woman. Nevertheless, the picture ends happily in a terrific match between Baer and Carnera, and in established love between the central couple...