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...West presented a particularly stiff problem to Stone. Since the depression which had knocked the town's cigar manufacturing industry flat, most of the inhabitants were on relief and barely subsisted. The once thronging naval and military posts had dwindled down to a skeleton crew of eleven...
Died. Julia Richards, III, famed cigar-smoking centenarian of Yolo County, Calif.; of old age; in Yolo...
...Others. Third ambiguity of best-seller lists is that they ignore children's books and the reprints sold in drugstores, cigar stores, newsstands. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, currently selling 5,000 copies a day, alone rings up more sales than any ten "best-sellers," and Munro Leaf's Ferdinand, at 2,000 each week, ranks with Cronin's The Citadel and Sinclair Lewis' The Prodigal Parents...
...Sally, Irene, and Mary," now at the Metropolitan, Alice Faye and Tony Martin rub noses, Fred Allen climbs a lamp post, Joan Davis goes into unbelievable contortions while tap dancing, and Jimmy Durante, back in films with his cigar and his proboscis, does his traditional "Again-You Turn-a" dance. A hodge-podge of the craziest situations Director William Seiter could throw together, the film makes no sense whatever; but it does succeed in being mildly amusing and sometimes very funny, which is all that was ever intended...
...Broadcast," 1938 model, is a conglomeration of music, humor and specialty acts strung together by the merest phantom of a story. Hollywood's one and only William Clark Fields is sometimes funny but more often clumsy and silly as he struts about barking wise cracks and chewing his large cigar. At his best in a very unconventional game of golf, he provides the film with a few good moments; but when he is gone, there is little left. To be sure, here is a dramatized history of the waltz, which is new; but the songs by Dorothy Lamour, Shirley Ross...