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...costume. In other respects, Rose of the Rancho has more limited qualifications. Its story of how a U. S. Federal Agent (John Boles), dispatched to investigate the doings of the vigilantes, falls in love with Rosita and eventually helps defend her family hacienda against a gang led by Charles Bickford, belongs to the sorry tradition of pre-War operetta librettos. Spirited but silly, its best moments are those in which hook-nosed Willie Howard, as a Jewish gold prospector from the Deep South, and bespectacled Herb Williams, as a rapacious insurance salesman, engage in vaudeville patter in the Golden Nugget...
East of Java (Universal). An ex-gangster named Red Bowers (Charles Bickford) becomes a leader of men when cast ashore on an island off East Africa together with the crew, passengers and cargo, mostly lions, of the tramp steamer Sea Dragon. East of Java was adapted from Gouverneur Morris' Tiger Island by able Screenwriter James Creelman, and regardless of its minor sins against credulity it has a reckless tempo and a tendency for killing off its cast, unusual and charming as a contrast to the current prissy mode of photographing people who sit around on sofas talking imitation Philip...
...player; a lion tamer going mad with fear when lions, loose and hungry, besiege him and his shipmates in a cave. A moment not composed by Creelman occurred when Tarzan, 3-year-old trained Nubian lion, was startled by the whir of motors in a hidden camera box while Bickford was lying on the ground in front of him. The beast sank its teeth in the actor's neck, shook him, dropped him, leaped on his prostrate body, stood there until scared off. Nine days later Bickford, with his bandages disguised by makeup, got out of the hospital...
Private funeral services will be held today for Robert S. Bickford '85, prominent alumnus who died Monday in his home...
...important a star Shirley Temple was to be became apparent with her second picture, Little Miss Marker. In this, still getting $150 a week, she appeared with Adolphe Menjou, Charles Bickford the late Dorothy Dell. The picture played three weeks at the New York Paramount equaled the record of Mae West's She Done Him Wrong, caused Fox to produce a story written especially for Cinemactress Temple called Baby, Take...