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Sporting Goods. The tradition that youthful salesmanship ranks in romance with search for the Holy Grail forms the basis for this fossilated farce. Richard Dix, as a brawny, broken-nosed, commercial traveler, twines love and business, achieving girl and commission. It gags and gurgles about the young salesman and his sweetie who admires him for being both opulent and deceitful. Ethics are somewhat mixed, the principals in an excellent poker sequence shifting cards until Dix acquires four of a kind, raking in thereby $4,000. Director Malcolm St. Clair, smart maker of the recent Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, was more interested...
...Defender is none other than Richard Dix, wearing a warm coat of California tan. An inevitably charming and good-natured outlaw, he cracks his long whip, shoots, stabs as if he were playing the role of a contemporary gangster instead of Joaquin Murrietta whose career was a trail of blood, bullets, alcohol and love for a pure sweet girl through the days of '49. There is no need to fear that Jake Hamby and his gang will be spry enough to catch and hang so gallant a jack, although they make violent efforts...
...Robin Hood theme has been picked up again by the movies. Witness "Rose of the Golden West" and the current Metropolitan attraction, Richard Dix in "The Gay Defender". Be it remarked immediately that they did these things better with the help of Mary Pickford's husband. Certainly there are enough important Latins in Hollywood to keep Mr. Dix, the American of them all, out of slit Spanish trousers and Mexican fandangos. He is pre-eminently a home boy and should be discouraged in any more attempts to hit for Fairbanks. The film as casual amusement is pleasing enough. Thelma Todd...
...same thing would happen if we went to war now. . . ." Major General Charles P. Summerall, Chief of Staff, protested: "The 1920 National Defense Act is ... developing excellently. ... It is what the title proclaims, an Act designed to procure adequate peacetime military establishment. . . ." Miss Jennie R. Dix, president of the Spanish War Nurses made a little speech; so did Mrs. Margaret Manion, president of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the United Spanish War Veterans. So did Mayor John W. Smith of Detroit, who fought Spain as a 15-year-old private in the 32nd Infantry...
...Power. The soloist is Richard Dix; the accompanist, Mary Brian, and the main theme based on that good old folksong-how the hero fixed up the heroine's papa's business. This was accomplished by driving the Stoddard tractor over oozy roads in time to arrive at the dam with tons of dynamite before the flood washed out the entire' valley. That "sells" the population on Papa Stoddard's tractors and closes the hero's deal for the heroine's hand. It is the kind of summer orchestration that needs no encore...