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Waist Gun. In Oakland, Calif., Merchant Seaman Enoch Bershofski, arrested for carrying a sawed-off shotgun inside his jacket, tried to convince police that he needed it to protect his bankroll...
Prohibition. For President, Stuart Hamblen, cowboy singer, former racehorse owner and "converted alcoholic"; for Vice President, Dr. Enoch Arden Holtwick, retired history professor of Greenville, Ill. The Prohibitionists hope to get on the ballot in 30 states...
...reading the drab little close-up of "real" life by someone signing himself "Enoch Arnold Bennett" could possibly see The Old Wives' Tale ahead. Max Beerbohm's A Defence of Cosmetics would seem to condemn its youthful author to remain a wishy-washy wordster forever. A humdrum little tale by Henry James, The Death of the Lion, gives no indication of the labyrinthine richness he was able to manage when he felt like it. To the contemporary eye, only George Gissing's grim story of spinsterhood, The Foolish Virgin, seems fit to rank with the best...
Oregon had wanted to use professional child actors, but Eddie Albert was convinced that amateurs would do better. He sold the idea to the principal of Emerson Junior High in West Los Angeles, picked students there to act the part of questioning schoolkids. Two Emerson youngsters -George Enoch, 13, and Josie Kegley, 12 -were "starred." Albert hired three professional actors to play the teacher, father and mother...
...Exeter Street Theatre. This is the latest production of British film mogul J. Arthur Rank, but it has very few of the usual attributes of English pictures. Written by Daphne du Maurier, it concerns an R.A.F. captain who is presumed dead in Europe for four years, then returns in Enoch Arden fashion to friends and family. The story is told haltingly and with an overdose of sentiment, but Michael Redgrave does a fine acting job. The co-feature, Russia On Parade, is a one-hour bore about Russian "sports"-lovers...