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Double or Nothing (Paramount). Tuneful musical, starring Bing Crosby and Martha Raye, whose plot turns on the adventures of four legatees of an eccentric millionaire...
...York State police rediscovered La Verne Moore in Hollywood. Calif, using the alias of John Montague. In Hollywood, La Verne Moore's reticence about his past, his phenomenal golf and his high spirits had combined to make him a highly publicized social lion, crony of cinemactors like Bing Crosby. Oliver Hardy and Guy Kibbee (TIME. July 19). Identified by his fingerprints, La Verne Moore was extradited and brought back to the Adirondack summer resort of Elizabethtown, N. Y. for trial. First stage in the case of People of New York v. La Verne Moore took place last week...
...Sigel Webb ruled Governor Frank F. Merriam had no option, must surrender La Verne Moore, fabled super-golfing mystery man known for seven years as John Montague, to New York State to stand trial for alleged participation in a roadhouse robbery in 1930. This despite appeals for Montague by Bing Crosby, Guy Kibbee, George Von Elm, et al. Promptly John Montague's attorneys flew their appeals East, asked New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman to cancel the request for extradition...
...time Montague had been around Hollywood for a year or two, he was sharing a house with fat Comedian Oliver Hardy whom he could lift with one hand. He golfed with celebrities like Bing Crosby, and joined the Lakeside Club where the rumor was that he amused the members one day by standing husky Cinemactor George Bancroft on his head in his locker and closing the door. Through his social success, John Montague retained his peculiar shyness. Whence he came or where he got his money, he told no one. His friends were either too afraid or polite...
...Waikiki Wedding" is pleasant to behold if you like Bing's voice, semi-Hawalian music, and genuine pictures of a schooner under sail; tiresome if you think Martha Haye's mouth is to big for her face. The string itself is a not too substantial plot of how the champion pineapple salesman sells himself while trying to sell his product. But the show is not to be condemned for being unsubstantial, because that is just what it tries not to be. Rather this is something aimed directly to please the not too demanding sense...