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...story of a fighter momentarily distracted from his boyhood sweetheart by the wiles of attractive Olga Tschechowa. Fighter Schmeling, composed and earnest, is helped through his scenes by considerate direction; he is more convincing when amorous than during a tedious fight with a gargantuan opponent in which both cock their punches for the camera. The stage fights of one-time Champion Jack Dempsey, experienced vaudevillian and actor, with Estelle Taylor Dempsey, in the Manhattan play The Big Fight, were more realistic than this picture, but Dempsey acted on the whole more self-consciously than Schmeling. Well-read, interested in painting...
Captain Roland Molyneux-Loyal to the Empire waistline, the captain-couturier is even more Napoleonic in attempting to revive the poke bonnet, trimmed with fur, ostrich feathers, cock plumes. Lounging pyjamas are voluminous, trailing like a dress in back, trousered in front...
...picked from a national rather than an exclusively Meadow Brook squad is a salute to the British. After repeated defeats the British have accepted the introduction of hard-riding, bumping, slashing and swatting to the "gentleman's game." Particularly they have tried to develop the Milburn-Hitch-cock style of tremendous hitting...
With 137 seats out of a possible 245 and a clear majority over all political parties, the Conservative party ousted Canadian Liberals from their nine-year roost fortnight ago. Last week stern-jowled Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister-elect, was cock of the Canadian walk. Editors in Britain and the U. S. sat back to analyze the results...
...green pepper and tomato which his wife, Lilyan Tash- man, named "topepo." He plays good golf, dislikes radio, is fond of wearing yellow gloves, goes to church every Sunday. His best part was the tough top-sergeant in What Price Glory. Other pictures: The Silent Command, The Fool, The Cock Eyed World, Through Different Eyes...