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...Movies" in a poll conducted by the newspaper with the largest circulation in the U. S.,? is hopelessly miscast as a light-heavyweight fighter in a fumbled version of W. R. Burnett's novel. The novel is one of the few accurate pieces ever written about the prize ring but it has been adapted in a way that takes the life out of its characterizations, its swift exciting action. Ignoring the actual scenes of ring battles constructed by Author Burnett with so much realism, Director Tod Browning has told the story in spasms of "Oh, yeah?" dialog, within...
...c.pt. c.pt., Staffon Angle, pt. pt., Littleton Rodge, Leonard, Winer, ld. ld., Burnham Thorndike, 2d. 2d., Peele Sweeney, Winer, Grosiane, Dennis, sd. sd., Dunnel Lay, Feins, c. c., Graham Watt, Taylor, sa. sa., Johnson Silverman, Grosiano, Hodge, 2a. 2a., Childs Tucker, 1a 1a., Hersey Dewolfe, Owens, Kuhl, o.h. o.h., Ring Redshaw, Kuhl, Owens, Brown, Leahy, i.h. i.h., Bugden...
Rarely, if ever, has a U. S. statesman, in Death, evoked such widespread and sincere expressions of personal regret as Nicholas Longworth. Behind the trite formality of eulogies-for-the-Press was a ring of honest mourning. The nation had lost its Speaker but there would be others; a multitude of people, high and low, had lost a charming friend who could not be replaced. The range of his friendships was reflected in the long list of honorary pallbearers, including William ("Wild Bill") Donovan and Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr., Joseph Leiter and Efrem Zimbalist, Will Rogers and Clarence Mackay, Albert Lasker...
...sleuthing, Commissioner Mulrooney announced that Miss Bischoffs murderer was one Harry Stein, 32-year-old footpad. He was found to have had in his possession a mink coat, from which the lining and identifying tags had been torn, and an unmounted diamond. (Miss Bischoffs mink coat and diamond ring were missing when her corpse was found.) Four others were arrested as his accomplices...
...have delighted in doing: the knights storming the castle of Queen Morgan Le Fay use submachine guns and ride in Austin cars; an autogiro arrives to rescue King Arthur; the tilt between Sir Boss (Will Rogers) and Sir Sagramor is an nounced in the manner of the modern prize-ring and broadcast by a whiskered radio man who begins McNamically: "Well, here we are at .Camelot. . . ." In this tilt Will Rogers, on a cow-pony, cuts figures around the knight on his lumbering charger and finally yanks him off with a rope and drags him round the field as western...