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Grand Canary (Fox). In show business "Canary" means soprano, but this picture is not about a musicomedienne. Its hero is another Hollywood reliable, the downhearted doctor. Harvey Leith (Warner Baxter) has invented an extraordinary serum in his London laboratory. When he administers it too late, three patients die and he is discredited as a quack. Morbidly discouraged, he boards ship for distant ports. At sea he meets Lady Mary Fielding (Madge Evans), returning to her husband in the Canary Islands...
When five-year-old Shirley Temple performed in Stand Up and Cheer (TIME, April 30) she got $150 a week. Notables like Warner Baxter, Madge Evans and James Dunn, who appeared in the same picture, got from $1,000 to $3,000. Shirley Temple's songs, smiles and capers made the picture profitable. They also marked her for that Hollywood rarity, a natural overnight star who needed no press buildup...
...Lady for a Day and It Happened One Night, which provided Harry Cohn, Columbia's Production Chief, with sufficient capital for the most elaborate program in the company's history for next year: 48 pictures, 32 of them ambitious features. Frank Capra will direct Broadway Bill, in which Warner Baxter will appear at twice his usual salary...
...CRIMSON Vagabond was following his profession a little too eagerly yesterday and wandered off to say that Professor Baxter would lecture at nine o'clock yesterday morning. At ten minutes to nine an inquisitive Freshman who rather doubted the veracity of the vagabond called the Professor who was still in bed unconscious of his engagement. After answering the telephone, Mr. Baxter dashed up stairs, pulled on some clothes, finished his dressing on the way up Plympton-Street, and arrived at New Lecture Hall to find it locked and deserted. It seems as though the History office had not delivered...
Today at nine in the New Lecture Hall Professor Baxter will talk about the Peace of Versailles, revealing its inadequacies and explaining how it came to be. Those who would seek to understand the world today would do well to hear...