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Broadway Through a Keyhole (Twentieth Century) was the cause of last summer's most widely publicized Hollywood brawl. Gossip that incidents in the picture resembled incidents in the career of Dancer Ruby Keeler caused Miss Keeler's husband, Mammy Singer Al Jolson, to punch Colyumist Walter Winchell, who suggested the story to Producer Darryl Zanuck (TIME, July 31). Broadway Through a Keyhole shows Crooner Jolson's grounds for fisticuffs were inadequate. The heroine of the picture (Constance Cummings) works at a night club run by a harridan named Tex Kaley (Texas Guinan). Ruby Keeler was once...
discouraged him. Turning to a coffeehouse, he was near to joining a sober looking man drinking a dish of chocolate, but a brawl suddenly broke out, and the sober looking man joined in to rescue a poor drunken wretch whom Sobersides addressed as "Dear Dick." The Vagabond bethought himself of Dean Swift, and would have visited that worthy, but his attire was so disarranged by a jar of slops flung from an upper window that he betook himself instead to Vauxhall, and rested in a quiet corner of the garden, seeing but unseen. This morning he will ascertain the views...
...Ball, one of the major victims of that defiance? How is one to harmonize the picture of the man who caused the imprisonment of a Spanish commissioner in the common goal, with that of him who played tweedledum to Don Jose Callava's tweedledee in Florida's ridiculous prestige brawl of 1820? When these samples, with countless of their kind, are added to the confused problem of Jackson's birthplace, his marriage, his treatment of the Creeks. et al., it is easy to understand why Parton, Summer, and Bassett failed to do their, subject justice, as Mr. James modestly suggests...
...Hall, one of the major victims of that defiance? How is one to harmonize the picture of the man who caused the imprisonment of the Spanish commissioner in the common goal with that of him who played tweedledum to Don Jose Callava's tweedledee in Florida's ridiculous prestige brawl of 1820? When these samples, with countless of their kind are added to the confused problems of Jackson's birthplace, his marriage, his treatment of the Creeks, et al., it is easy to understand why Parton, Sumner, and Bassett failed to do their subject justice, as Mr. James modestly suggests...
...made him money and a reputation but somehow did not satisfy him. Travers was also a bit fuzzy. Returning from a trip to the U. S. he is met by his pretty young wife at Liverpool. Travers wanders off to buy a book, becomes innocently involved in a street brawl, is taken in tow by a mysterious florist in the pay of the internationally omnipotent Lord Snarge...