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Those who attend the University Theater this week to see Edward G. Robinson, cast as Mike, the Portagee, in "Tiger Shark," will hardly be too disappointed. Robinson is the great character actor of Hollywood at present, and the movie magnates are exploiting his good name to the full in a series of second-rate films such as "The Hatchet Man" and "Tiger Shark," But those who remember Robinson washing his hands of the messes in "Five Star Final" cannot but believe that a good actor is being wasted on bad material. Miss Zita Johann, the Quita of the picture...
...plot's the thing, and the plot of "Tiger Shark" is just the theme song of one thousand and one cheap triangle melodramas set to the tuna fish industry. Hence the whole plot is out at the elbows, predictable, and slightly dull. The photography is good, affording many interesting shots of the proper way to catch fish, which are like all educational pictures, much too prolonged. It is enough to say that this movie is amusement...
Perhaps because "Tiger Shark" has certain faults the University's other offering, "Blondie of the Follies," has certain incontrovertible merits. Its plot is the outworn story of the successful showgirl, the like of which Miss, Davies has played at least twice, probably oftener, but the lively lines save it. When one sees the Maid Marion in her usual role of a minx, it is clear why her pictures appear so often on the pages of Hearst's Cosmopolitan and in the Boston American. Of course an unfeeling and unsympathetic director made Miss Davies show maternal instinct over...
After a brief stop in Detroit, he sped back to Albany, turned abruptly from national to local politics. On the eve of the Democratic State convention the Tammany tiger was again on the rampage...
...which supplied its paper, sold in 1917 to the late Walter Webster Manning, who continued the policy of small-town appeal. Last year Publisher Manning died, leaving the magazine to his sons Conant and Gordon. Gordon Manning, who got his first publishing experience as business manager for the Princeton Tiger (1928-29), ran the advertising end in Manhattan. His brother directed the publication in Chicago...