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Smiling Faces has an elaborately trite plot about a film actress (Dorothy Stone) who marries her fiance's best friend (Roy Royston) to get in the social register so that she can wed the man she loves (Charles Collins) without costing him his, inheritance. It has one good tune ("Stumbled Over You") and another with a line beginning "And soon a baby face. . . ." Like most Fred Stone shows it has few sexy jokes and those it has deal exclusively with the intermediate sex. Sample: "Since this is A Midsummer Night's Dream, you don't mind...
...outspoken. It is Grand Hotel in an obstetrical ward?the principal members of its cast are seven expectant mothers, one of them equipped with twins. The old theme of a father waiting for his child to be born is only the springboard episode for Life Begins. Before the main plot develops, the audience has heard the moans of the "labor room," seen a pregnant woman of the world (Glenda Farrell) drink whiskey from a hot water bottle, and sympathized with an unmarried mother when she says that soldiers who die on the field of battle and mothers...
Unable to satisfy Governor Roosevelt without corroborative testimony, Mayor Walker had 22 witnesses subpoenaed for his defense. Of these eight were important New York State Republicans. Counsel Curtin was going to try to prove by them that the Tammany investigation was a G. O. P. plot inspired from Washington to abort the Roosevelt and Smith presidential candidacies. How such a plot, even if proved, would clear Mayor Walker of the charges and evidence against him Mr. Curtin did not attempt to explain. The inference was that if Governor Roosevelt removed the Mayor he would somehow be in political cahoots with...
Commonwealth College was founded in 1923. on a 320-acre plot near the Talihina Highway in the Ouachita Mountains. The founders were Dr. William Edward Zeuch (pronounced Zoyk) of the University of Illinois, and Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare, Labor lecturer, onetime (1912-14) international secretary of the Socialist Party of America. Mrs. O'Hare was once kissed by Anatole France when she appeared before an international Socialist gathering. A pacifist, she was imprisoned for 14 months during the War under the Espionage Act. In founding Commonwealth College. Dr. Zeuch and Mrs. O'Hare espoused no one dogma. Their "Commoners...
...meet Doree Dawn in an Atlantic City hotel, only the quick action of his manager saves the situation. The manager effects a speedy reconciliation between the chorus girl and her first admirer. The mayor mournfully marries them. Only New Yorkers with very special inside knowledge know how closely this plot adheres to Mayor Walker's friendship with Actress Betty Compton, who suddenly married Cinema Director Edward Duryea Dowling last year and left town (TIME, March 2, 1931). Most neatly timed of the topical cinemas which Hollywood has recently furnished, this one is also one of the least instructive, most...