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...tries to force her father to let her marry a handsome bounder by pretending to be in love with a penniless college boy, Pete (Gene Raymond), whom she pays to masquerade as an objectionable French count. Sole variation on this time-honored theme is that Pete is also a crooner seeking a job in radio. This gives him opportunity to sing several pleasant new melodies (Cabin on the Hill-tot), Let's Make A Wish, My Heart Wants to Dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 21, 1936 | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...Unhappily obstinate, she heads for Arizona and marriage to the bounder. How Pete, in the middle of his first broadcast before a swank crowd, succeeds in stopping her is too ridiculous to be funny: While his partner holds the radio station at bay by pretending to have a gun, Crooner Pete breaks off singing, babbles impassioned pleas to Kit over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 21, 1936 | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...Ocean has been flown 85 times by 58 airplanes carrying 179 persons. Among others, they included professionals and amateurs, men and women, Jews and gentiles, a photographer, an ambitious socialite, a stenographer, a mechanic, a junkman. To this motley group last week were added two new types-a Broadway crooner and a British mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Transatlantic Types | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...unshaven flyer was Harry Richman, 41, who has had a certain success singing torch songs while beating himself on the chest. Born Harry Reichman in Cincinnati, Crooner Richman went on the stage in 1907, rose to vaudeville prominence in 1921 as accompanist to Mae West. Same year he started as a radio performer, has since been a steady Broadway revue star, appeared in several cinemas, run a Manhattan night club across the street from his tough brother's speakeasy. Unmarried and supposedly well-off, he occasionally splurges money in such ways as insuring his voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Transatlantic Types | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Deciding on a transatlantic flight. Crooner Richman had a special Wright Cyclone engine installed in his smgle-motored $95,000 Vultee monoplane Lady Peace. For a co-pilot he picked Eastern Air Lines' No. 1 Flyer Henry Tindall ("Dick"') Merrill, who has flown 2,000,000 miles without injury, last year made news by flying a plane from the U. S. to Chile to aid the overpublicized search for Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth (TIME, Jan. 27). A slight. 39-year-old bachelor. Pilot Merrill does not smoke or drink but has a weakness for perfume. When flying, he usually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Transatlantic Types | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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