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...Ford which contains his wife, children, chicken coop and guitar. Aline MacMahon ably portrays the proprietress, a calm, ugly, unhappy woman gloomily trying to conceal her emotion when brought face to face with a man she is trying to forget. Ann Dvorak plays her young sister, infatuated with a poolroom loafer in the nearest village. What prevents Heat Lightning from being a first rate picture is that it lacks neatness of design. Good shot: the gas-station and the road beyond illuminated by a flash of heat lightning - which serves no other purpose than to give the picture its title...
...been padlocked for two years and The Orient is now a poolroom for town loafers. Michiganders will have to walk three blocks west to drink their beer: an Ann Arbor ordinance forbids liquor-selling on the campus side of Division Street. Law enforcement is strict in Washtenaw County; students are accustomed to slip over to farmhouse speakeasies in Wayne County. The Mill, Dad's and Red and Bill's now fear a loss of trade...
...Gertrude Baker McEvoy of Bayside (L. I.) : the first women's national amateur pocket billiards championship; by beating Miss Georgia Veatch of Chicago 200 to 198, in the final; at Jack Doyle's "Academy" (poolroom); in Manhattan...
...puts just the right intonations in her tiny, memorable speech: "I can't swim." But most of the time the picture wanders about in a maze of poorly acted, disintegrated incident which lacks the cumulative effect of Dreiser's ponderous prose. Dull shots: Phillips Holmes jumping out of a poolroom window when police arrive; smirking at a dance to show how much he likes high life; making bewildered, wooden attempts to seem amorous...
Last week, aged 35 and four months, weighing what he said was 149 lb., and what some observers estimated as high as 165, not discouraged by the fact that all his oldtime opponents have retired (to become, variously, a boxing instructor, policeman, haberdasher, poolroom proprietor, truant officer, referee, ironworker, gambler, newspaper vendor, sporting goods salesman), Benny Leonard announced his return to the ring. His onetime manager, Billy Gibson, was in a private sanatorium, but Leonard has taken up with a new one-crafty Jack Kearn, onetime manager of Jack Dempsey, present manager of Mickey Walker. Manager Kearns planned a fight...