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...crisply honest about the seamy side of the voyage. Financial worries led his grievances, but he stuck to his vow to "make no films, advertise nothing, perform no stunts," letting publisher's royalties from past and future books bear the main expense. Personnel problems were plentiful among his boyish crew, but chief offenders were the finicky U. S. college boys, who were apt to be diligent only about seducing native women. The radio brought a whole world's unwelcome troubles. Of the ship chandlers he bought from, only three around the globe were not robbers. End less...
...Sleuth Pinkerton rushed the President-elect to Washington by night, was rewarded by a White House invitation to create the U. S. Secret Service. After the Civil War, Pinkerton resumed his private work, grew rich and famed in the service of pioneering railroads beset by train robbers. But while boyish hearts thumped to the exploits of intrepid Pinkerton men in dime novels, Labor grew to hate the name more & more. For Pinkerton's was also making money by supplying armed guards to employers with labor troubles. In 1892 hard-boiled Henry Clay Frick imported 300 "Pinks" to fight...
...Powell does a creditable job in his usual boyish style, and Miss Carrol, as stated, does just about the best that can be expected. Actually, the show is just about stolen by Alice Faye. Her appearance is improving, her voice is richening, she has definitely learned to act, and her second fiddling to Miss Carrol is very much to be heard. Her delineation of the Bowery belle is particularly gratifying. The Ritz brothers also put in their appearance now and then. Stating the general appearance of the audience rather than the particular one of the reviewer, they are pretty funny...
When he finished his career as a football and dramatics star at University of Dayton in 1932, big, boyish Richard Truman Frankensteen taught school for a year, then went to work for Chrysler Corp. as a body trimmer in the Dodge plant in Detroit. He had worked there before, during high school vacations and for two years while he studied law at night. Soon automobile unionism was burgeoning with NRA, and educated, articulate Dick Frankensteen was a natural leader. When an Automotive Industrial Workers Association was organized in 1934 he became its first secretary. Next year...
...Powell's tap dancing features the picture: in addition, she does so well in the role of the little town girl who makes good that she easily outclasses Ginger Rogers. However, James Stewart, the mellow almost inaudible tenor, is no Astaire, and if it weren't for his ingratiating boyish shyness, he would detract from the film. The clever Reginald Gardinev leads a neat touch with a fantastic impersonation of Stokowski and his baton, an act which he repeats in "The Show Is On". Supplementing Eleanor Powell's nimble feet are those of Georges and Jains, a graceful, aristocratic dance...