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...well as give one. The difficulty has been caused by the fact that none of Louis' adversaries, since he turned professional a year ago, has proved capable of staying in the ring with him long or actively enough to answer it. Louis' bout with Chicago's clownish Harry Krakow ("King Levinsky") last week was originally scheduled mainly as a build-up for his next really important fight in September but as the date approached, sports writers courteously began to reflect that it was within the realm of possibility for Levinsky to solve the problem by which more...
What the Mercury will be like under its new editor not even Publisher Knopf- who said only that the magazine would be conducted along "the same general lines" -knew last week. Grave, workmanlike, austere where Mencken was clownish, inspired, blatant. Editor Hazlitt started his career on the Wall Street Journal, was a financial writer for the New York Evening Post and then the Mail before he became literary editor of the Sun in 1925. He resigned in 1929 to join The Nation. Last month he published The Anatomy of Criticism. Essayist William Hazlitt was his great-great-great uncle...
...Vickers (RKO-Radio). Sinclair Lewis' story of a woman social worker is satisfactory material for the cinema. As adapted by Jane Murfin it briefly shows Ann Yickers (Irene Dunne) at the start of her career, coolly fencing off the admiration of a clownish confrère and a suave young barrister (Conrad Nagel). It deals more comprehensively with her wartime love affair with Captain Resnick (Bruce Cabot). After these preliminary romances and Ann's brief, unhappy experience as a prison-executive, the picture launches enthusiastically into the matter of her liaison with Judge Barney Dolphin (Walter Huston...
...Chicago, onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey, fatter and more surly looking than last July when he lost his title to Primo Camera, climbed into a ring opposite clownish young King Levinsky. Thirty seconds after the gong surly Jack Sharkey was flat on his back for a count of seven. Soon his left eye was swollen, he moved groggily. Warming up, Levinsky floundered in fiercely, sometimes wildly beating the air, sometimes carefully beating Sharkey's pate. When Sharkey landed a nasty loin-blow, Levinsky returned it. When Sharkey won his only decisive round - the seventh - Levinsky came back to pump...
Clear All Wires (Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer) shows a clownish foreign correspondent misbehaving and manipulating news in Moscow. Buckley Joyce Thomas spends part of his time composing highly personalized dispatches for the Chicago Globe, more of it in making love to his employer's mistress, stealing press passes that belong to his confreres, badgering a forlorn cousin of the Romanovs who happens into his office. His amorous intrigues lose him his job; he gets it back by writing a lively account of an attempted assassination staged by having his secretary fire on a Soviet Commissar of police...