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...other picture, "The Million Dollar Ransom" was written by Damon Runyon for those who like their underworld straight. A benevolent beer-baron gives his life for his daughter and a millionaire kid. The moustached heavies are as sinister as you could ask and if you have no violent objection to Andy Devine's whining, and if you can endure underworld and Damon slang you will find the picture passable but unsafe...
...evening gown which he found in the crone's drawer. Then Broadway knew that "Apple Annie" was dead. Her real name was Helen McCarthy. But for five years, known only as Apple Annie, she stood in a little alley off Times Square, hawked apples & oranges & gum. There Sportswriter Damon Runyon passed her many a day and on one of them he had an idea. The idea became a story, Apple Annie. The story became a moving picture, Lady For A Day, a film of a bottle-loving harridan who played for 24 hours the part of a Park Avenue...
Kelth's Boston: "Million Dollar Ransom"--Damon Runyon's well-known story with Philips Holmes, Edward Arnold and Mary Carlisle...
...group of Freshmen retained includes James C. Abbot, Howard A. Brinkman, Leonard K. Bristol, Richard P. Connette, Albert Damon, Russel G. Davies, Don W. Fawcott, William D. Fraser, Charles W. French, Jr., Frank E. Greene, Jr., August H. Haffenreffer, Jr., Garrison K. Hall, George C. Haratsairs, Robert B. Holden, Shepard Jerome, William P. Keats, Truman P. Kohman, Norman Leen, Mathew B. Legget, Robert H. Mansfield, Wiley E. Mayne, Edwin W. Meisenhelder, 3rd, Harvey A. Robinson, Robert W. Snyder, Ray W. Tripp, Jr., and Albert E. Weiner...
...TIGER by Don Skene (Appleton-Century, $1.50) Funny -- and pumy. A tongue-in-the-cheek torne about prize fighters. Introduction by Damon Runyon to this writer's "first" sets a fast pace. The book keeps...