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...Sylvester Harris, Negro farmer of Columbus, Miss., aided by a representative of the New Orleans Land Bank, last week got payments of the first and second mortgages on his farm postponed until autumn. He explained that he had telephoned the White House...
...sister a $36 dress, urged producers to cast him as Othello. Annoyed by rumors that he was as lazy off the screen as on, he grew over-diligent, insisted on writing his own lines, directing his own scenes. In 1931, Stepin Fetchit ceased to be employed in Hollywood. Last autumn Winfield Sheehan of Fox was smart enough to rehire him. In Carolina he appeared as the stumbling, fumbling "cornfield nigger" dressed up as a butler. He will next appear in Fox Follies...
...daily press last week. Both were based on figures released by the Department of Commerce. Both compared January 1934 with January 1933. Together they offered a neat example of the fatuity of considering naked statistics. As everyone knows, production of most 1934 models was delayed by last autumn's tool & die makers' strike. With few exceptions, dealers did not have new models to deliver until late in January if at all. The decrease was calculated on the value of all automobiles delivered to consumers. The increase was calculated on the units sold to dealers. The fact that...
Beginning next Monday at the Hollis Theatre is C. L. Anthony's romantic comedy, "Autumn Crocus" with Rollo Peters and Mabel Taliaferro in the starring roles...
...Autumn Crocus" was one of the successes of last year both in New York and in London. It is a recoil from the hard-boiled type of comedy that is represented by Mr. Noel Coward, being written in the tradition of Barrie. Instead of depending for its appeal on verbal celverness, or shocking lines it sets up in place of these an air of quiet pleasantness and of deliberately sentimental romance. It is difficult to draw the line between tenderness and a sweetness that becomes sickening; but Barrie was able to do it and it is done with almost...