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...whose innocent pleasure was to pet small, furry things, whose vice was his crazy strength that inevitably killed the things he loved to touch; and George, a wiry, roadwise nomad whose chief job in life was looking after Lennie. The hopeless fairy tale that George (Wallace Ford) tells Lennie (Broderick Crawford) over and over about the little house on the little piece o' land, with an alfalfa patch and rabbits for Lennie to pet, where one day they will live "off the fatta the land" was more than a bedtime story. It was George's dream...
...fate of the play lay in the hands of young Broderick Crawford. 210-lb. ex-football player, son of Comedienne Helen Broderick. Built up into a hulking, shuffling imbecile by means of four-inch shoes and padded shoulders, Crawford won sympathy for a monstrous character, playing Lennie as a pathetic giant who kills as innocently as an unintentionally offending child. Next to Crawford's goosefleshy characterization, that of Actor Hamilton as Candy came closest to the realism Author Steinbeck strove...
...world tottering as never before but the office's morale and reputation had been shattered because the previous incumbent, Frank H. Warder, had been convicted of accepting a $10,000 bribe. Sitting in the saddle of this banking bronco, however, was brisk, hard-working Joseph A. Broderick. He did his job well enough so that when he was indicted on charges of neglect of duty in connection with the failure of New York's Bank of United States, not only Alfred E. Smith and Charles E. Mitchell but New York's Governor Franklin Roosevelt testified to "confidence...
This was something of a return of the native, for Mr. Broderick in 1914 served on the committee which helped organize the newly formed Federal Reserve System and was the Board's first examiner. In 1919 Banker Broderick resigned from the Federal Reserve to become vice president of the National Bank of Commerce in New York. Last week 55-year-old Banker Broderick took his second leave of the Federal Reserve. Apparently still enjoying Mr. Roosevelt's confidence but not his $15,000 salary, Mr. Broderick accepted the presidency of Manhattan's potent East River Savings Bank...
...second feature this week is entitled "Life or the Party" with Gene Raymond, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick and Joe Ponner. Inconsequental to an extreme, the picture succeeds in being very funny at times despite the hapless efforts of Mr. Parkyakarkas to add to the gaityAn average news reel and an excellent March of Time comulete the bill