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...Gang Buster (Paramount). Funnyman Jack Oakie, ablest of Paramount's comics, here plays a small-town boy so superstitious that on the thirteenth of every month he wants to stay in bed clutching a rabbit's foot. After long and laughable complications he is seen at the picture's climax entering a racketeer's headquarters armed with a monkey wrench to rescue the beautiful kidnapped daughter of a rich lawyer. There is more fun in The Gang Buster than its plot would indicate. Oakie is good and so is William Boyd as Gangster Mike Slade. Best shot: Wynne Gibson...
...midnight last week Chicago newshawks and photographers assembled in a bare room at the call of Chief Investigator Pat Roche of the State's Attorney's office. Before them was led a tall, thickset, wavy-haired young man named Leo V. ("Buster") Brothers. Investigator Roche proudly introduced him as the hired assassin of Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, the racketeering Tribune crime reporter, who, while walking through a pedestrian's subway beneath famed Michigan Avenue, was plugged with one neat .32 bullet in his head head head (TIME, June 23). Chicago's best murder mystery of a decade...
...gang of rustlers who ran cattle from Montana to the Mexican border. Young Lee soon found out what it was all about. When his father and mother quarreled, Lee ran away. He joined some Ute Indians, learned all about horses and cattle, became their No. 1 broncobuster. Says Buster Sage: no man should stay too long on a bucker; 20 seconds is plenty. Once he stayed 30, and was sick and dizzy afterwards; when he stayed three minutes, he had to be carried off, bleeding from the nose and mouth...
...using the moving-picture business as a background, believing, probably quite correctly, that such stories in attempting to exploit the accidental glamour which is one of the most important assets of the business, satisfied public curiosity instead of stimulating it. This time the idea of having the camera follow Buster Keaton around the Culver City lot, where famed directors and entertainers are at work, is more successful than usual. It is a Merton-of-the-Movies story, with the comedian talking in a mellow voice that takes only a little sharpness out of his pantomime. Best shot: Keaton, cast...
...Ireland, as everyone has been told, there are no snakes, in Great Britain there are almost no mad dogs. Last week. while Nosko's Buster caused an uproar in the New York Times, London news-sheets became exercised over a campaign led by the Canine Defense League and supported mainly in the Morning Post...