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...Maharaja of Patiala, Maj. General His Highness Bhupindra Singh. Hon. Aide de Camp since 1922 to George V. (Deep-chested, tremendous, with close-braided beard and heavy-lidded, magnetic eyes, expression and reputation sensual and sinister; from beneath his turban peep a pair of earrings each consisting of two pearls, diamond-set and large as cherries...
...Ranji" cricket tradition is carried on by his nephew Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji who, as the Cricketers' Almanac for 1930 observes, "if not so famous as his renowned uncle ... is ... one of the great batsmen of the younger generation. . . . Like his uncle he possesses a remarkable eye and a pair of most supple wrists...
...People who feel humiliated when they find themselves laughing at comedy which bases its appeal on noise, cheap wisecracks, furniture smashing, the loss of trousers and similar devices will not enjoy The Life of the Party. It is a slapstick feature with Winnie Lightner and Irene Delroy as a pair of golddiggers who are discharged from a music store, raid a dressmaking establishment, and go to Havana looking for kind old men. It is stupid stuff, yet funny. Best line: a horse-racing Colonel (Charles Butterworth), seeing his entry turn around and run the wrong way when a black...
...cast included Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) and Andy (Charles J. Correll) could be certain of attention at the box office. But material like this could command nothing but the very mildest attention if the radio audience were not the cinema audience. The explanation of the success of the blackface pair in broadcast is that they have created a fiction just funny enough to make people want to hear its nightly continuation and not long enough to let them become bored. Served in a lump, the Gosden-Correll humor is less digestible. Amos & Andy stall their cab on Broadway, carry...
...Manhattan, Allen Orman, 23, held up with a toy pistol Frances Tauber, 21, hosiery salesgirl, robbed the shop of $30. In binding her to a chair he tore her stocking. Soon after she received a dozen roses, six handkerchiefs, an amorous telegram signed ISLE OF VIEW and a pair of silk stockings. Then Allen Orman telephoned her, asked for a tryst. Frances Tauber agreed, took with her two detectives, sent amorous Allen Orman to jail...