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...room he drunkenly answers the telephone the night Maggie finally arrives. Maggie divorces him. Skid disintegrates. He wobbles back to the gutter, gets turned down when he tries to reenlist, finally gets one more chance to play his trumpet in an orchestra run by a kind-hearted crony (Charles Butterworth). He is on the point of fumbling this assignment also when Maggie, still loyal, reappears, sobers him up enough to render their old specialty...
...EAST and Ralph Dumke, were sons of Notre Dame, who appeared on the stage Charles Butterworth, pretender to stupidity, Notre Dame's Walter O'Keefe, later a buffoon. "East and Dumke" are now known as "Sisters of the Skillet." Charles B. has made a in movies and on the Fred Astaire stanza over a work. No promise of seriousness has been Mr. worth's. His has been a promise of madness, and must be accepted for South Bend, Ind., the Brothers, and the U. S. A. in general. The of the Skillet" are now known as the "Quality Twins...
...Beavers), who says she rescued him from a burning village in the Civil War. On the chance that ha may be the scion of a rich Northern family named Ainsworth. he is shipped to New York where he encounters a jealous little cousin (Marilyn Knowlden). a kindly butler (Charles Butterworth ) and a tyrannical old lady (May Robson) who refuses to believe she is his grandmother until a rendering of a Stephen Foster chorus prompts her to go South and investigate. Compared on points, Waif Ching-Ching comes out considerably ahead of Waif Ainsworth. Compared as pictures, Stowaway comes out ahead...
...like Sherlock Holmes, whose deductive gifts were superhuman, Ashenden belongs to the modern school of sleuths whose fallibility makes them plausible. In Secret Agent he scuffs about hotel corridors, deserted churches, glaciers, the backstairs of a chocolate factory, wearing an unhappy frown which is at times reminiscent of Charles Butterworth's. Spy Ashenden's behavior is, however, less of a hindrance than a help to the picture, is indicative of the enormity of the hostile forces with which he is trying to deal. Directed by England's pudgy master of melodrama, Alfred Hitchcock (Thirty-Nine Steps...
Died. William Butterworth, 71, president of Deere & Co. (farm machinery), thrice (1928-31) president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; of acute coronary occlusion; in Absecon...