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Norma Shearer without her characteristic nervous titter is beautiful and reasonably capable as Nina Leeds, particularly toward the end of the picture as the woman of 40. Clark Gable, perceptibly fatter, is Ned Darrell, the lover. Alexander Kirkland is Sam Evans, the husband. Ralph Morgan has kept his stage part of "dear old Charlie" Marsden, the epicene friend. May Robson as Sam's mother booms compellingly. The modernistic set of Nina's Park Avenue home is excellent. Noteworthy are frequent transparency shots which require a previously photographed background to be fitted to the foreground by the use mainly...
Sirs: TIME, clear, curt, hardly complete, failed to mention possibly the most dramatic struggle in the life of John J. McGraw (TIME, June 13)- his battle against a nickname. Young and irascible Third Baseman McGraw was known as "Muggsy" in Baltimore, gloried in the name. As he grew older, fatter, the name seemed undignified. No longer a head-puncher, save in sundry clubs where he was reputed to have lost more fights than an English heavyweight, John McGraw objected to rowdy publicity, fought strenuously for years and finally had the offensive appellation discarded first by the New York and then...
...McGraw grew older and fatter, he became more dignified. He remained irritable, a harsh disciplinarian. There was reported to be dissension between manager and players. First act of Manager Terry last week was to "give the boys a break." Said he: "They won't have to report to the park at 10 in the morning or go to bed at any certain hour. . . . All I'm to ask is that they play good ball...
...statement made on whether there has been a similar increase throughout the U. S. so that other rate-raises may follow. Columbia Broadcasting System, last week denied any general rate raise but admitted "revisions and rearrangements of rates" would start June 1. While checks from advertisers will be fatter, checks to performers will be smaller this summer than any time since the early days of radio. George Engles, director of NBC's artists service, last week said salaries will be cut to "bring entertainment to the public at a price commensurate with present economic conditions...
...bloated Falstaff demanding £400,000,000 from the bearded Prince of Wales, Edward VII, as the price of his love. Plump Tommy Nast raged at the subject, but admired the technique. A month later he replied with a full page in Harpers Weekly of an even fatter John Bull Falstaff, drawn in the same manner. In this adaptation of the Tenniel technique he thereafter drew all his best known pictures...