Word: desertions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sons of the Desert (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy behaving foolishly as members of an idiotic secret order. Fat supercilious Hardy sneaks off to the Chicago convention of the Sons of the Desert by telling his wife (Mae Busch) he is going to Honolulu for his nerves. Laurel, scratching his whisk-broom forelock, accompanies him. On their return, there is confusion because the steamer from Honolulu, on which their wives expected them, has been wrecked. Laurel & Hardy cope with the situation ignominiously, Hardy with a feeble lie, Laurel with a blubbering confession...
What distinguishes Sons of the Desert from other Laurel & Hardy comedies is less its plot than the presence in the cast of Charley Chase, a lanky, glib comedian with a mouse-paw mustache and a moron's chuckle. Appearing at the Chicago convention as a Son of the Desert from Texas, Charley Chase greets Laurel & Hardy when they arrive from California by whacking them with a paddle. He invites them to his table and puts in a long distance call for his sister in Los Angeles. who turns out to be Hardy's wife. Stupid Charley Chase does...
...shop and he wins a case or two. Then more troubles set in. Sinister Tono Casenove (Nils Asther) appears to blackmail Sarah. Stingy Mrs. Evers (Lorraine MacLean) refuses to give Gordon a divorce. Gossip that threatens to undo Evers' legal practice makes Sarah Casenove think that she must desert him. To top it all, Evers, with a war-bullet in his chest, discovers that he has only six more months to live. The results of surgery in If I Were Free correspond with those of gun play in The Women in His Life, the final telephone call in Counsellor...
Some comfort to harassed Mr. Gandhi was the arrest at Annand last week for the sixth time of Mrs. Gandhi, a disciple whose example of martyrdom grows more precious as other disciples desert the Mahatma. Since he deserted the popular cause of trying to free India for the unpopular one of trying to gain equality for India's "untouchables" his prestige has steadily waned. At Nagpur last month scurrilous Indians even pelted eggs at St. Gandhi, missed their mark...
...English schooling, the War, by the author of The Garden. JUNIPERO SERRA - Agnes Repplier- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Essayist Repplier writes the life of one of California's friar-pioneers. THE SIXTH NEW YORKER ALBUM- Harper ($2.50). Gleanings for the curious from the Manhattan smartchart. RIDDLES OF THE GOBI DESERT-Sven Hedin-Button ($5). More of the same oy the author of Across the Gobi Desert. THE ROOSEVELT REVOLUTION, First Phase - Ernest K. Lindley - Viking ($2.50). A Washington correspondent analyzes the New Deal. THE GREAT OFFENSIVE-Maurice Hin-dus-Smith & Haas ($3). More about New Russia by the author...