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...Hampshire's Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey had introduced a resolution against such inquisition. Cried he, borrowing an expletive from Willie Baxter:* "Ye gods! Stalin and Hitler may play the game that way, but not in free America. Shame on our country† for suggesting such a thing...
Seventeen (Paramount). In the 24 years since young Jack Pickford played Willie Baxter in the silent screen version of Seventeen, cinemaddicts forgot how much charm there is in that classic of calf love on Main Street. Booth Tarkington's novel is scarcely a generation old, but the folkways Seventeen describes, the gawky naturalness of most of its young people, the tolerant humor and humanity with which its adults are able to straighten out youth's scrapes, make it seem like something from the far past. Members of the American Youth Congress may not like it. But if they...
This account of a crisis in the young manhood of a 17-year-old boy is no more momentous than his change of voice, just as trying. Willie Baxter's puppy passion for Lola Pratt, the Baby Talk Lady, who is "almost a divorced woman," and his adolescent antics are as funny today as when they were written. High spots are still Willie's drastic expedients to get pocket money to woo heartless, flirtatious Lola in style, his stratagems to purloin his father's dress suit, his difficulties with a used-car shark, his running feud with...
...Long-striding Charles ("Chuck") Fenske: the Baxter Mile, feature race of the New York Athletic Club Games; in 4 min., 07.4 sec., equaling the fastest time ever recorded for a competitive mile indoors; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. It was Fenske's second 4.07.4 mile this season, his fifth successive victory over the nation's top milers, including Glenn Cunningham...
...others: International Business Machines' Thomas Watson: $453,440. Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace: $378,698. American Tobacco's George Hill: $331,348. General Motors' William Knudsen: $303,400. Cinemactress Claudette Colbert: $301,944. Cinemactor Warner Baxter: $279,807. Producer Darryl Zanuck: $265,000. Radio's Bing Crosby: $260,000. Theatre Operator Spyros P. Skouras...