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...Beauty (Paramount) is a benign sexual romp, publicized as an apostrophe to beauty, male as well as female ("Venus-like Girls! Tarzan-like Men!"). It presents: 30 handsome youngsters picked in promotional beauty contests throughout the U. S. and the British Empire; neat blonde Ida Lupino and muscular Larry ("Buster") Crabbe (Tarzan the Fearless). Lupino and Crabbe are Olympic swimmers. Hired by a pair of shifty rogues (James Gleason, Robert Armstrong) to run a physical culture magazine, they are soon shocked to discover what a crooked venture it really is. Crabbe is so vigorously honest that his employers are glad...
...this little mystery without resorting to an encyclopedia by wondering what would shock a staid Anglo Saxon. Hillel Bernstein writes simple prose, gently mocking everything in France by la France, and not forgetting to take a poke at some of our noble customs and institutions such as the "Busters" which vaguely resembles the American Legion, or the Gold Star Legation. Bernstein's satire will surely amuse you, provided that you are not a "Buster...
...swimmers are by far the most efficient in the world, no one of them is likely to be elevated from his tank into the trees. The rôle of Tarzan in the cinema is reserved for U. S. paddlers like Johnny Weissmuller (for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and Clarence ("Buster"') Crabbe, who are tall, ingenuous and shaggy at the ears. Crabbe has an advantage over Weissmuller in that he looks even less capable of speech. When he pats Jacqueline Wells on the chest in the last reel and says "That . . . mine. . . ." audiences should find this a feat of intellectual...
Most Southern cotton farmers will, hitch "Jude" and "Beck" to a riding "planter" equipped with a 12 in. "middle buster" and a seedbox filled with Maize or Kaffir, "gee" and "haw" aforesaid mules into their accustomed places between the rows, and at a single operation plow up the government's row of cotton and reseed the row with a feed crop...
...finish first and pay $21.52, in Chicago. ¶Ralph Flannagan, 15, of Miami: the National A. A. U. outdoor mile swimming race held in the north lagoon of the Century of Progress, Chicago, in 21:12½, thus breaking the U. S. record (21:27) held by Cinematic Buster Crabbe. At the same meet, Leonard Spence of the New York Athletic Club lowered his time for the 440-yd. breast stroke event to 6:08.8. a U. S. record. A world record fell when Jack Medica, 18, University of Washington freshman, won the 880-yd. free-style race...