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Chuck Connors Wallace Beery Steve Brodie George Raft Lucy Calhoun Fay Wray Swipes McGurk Jackie Cooper...
Wallace Beery and George Raft put a little more life into their parts than was actually there and were ably cast as the leaders of the Bowery in its glamorous era. Naturally it was necessary to show what happened to a girl from Albany in the wicked city. Fay Wray is the charming victim, and although she is in constant company with Steve and Chuck, she retains her simple, sweet, and virtuous habits to the very end. A superior "poof" from Mr. Walsh, the director, should help much in making other directors pay less attention to environment in the future...
...sentimental regard for a waif called Swipes (Jackie Cooper) whose favorite pastime is throwing stones through the windows of a Chinese laundry. Steve Brodie (George Raft ) is a different type of Bowery sport, a sleek, rakish gambling man, envious of Connors' prestige. When Connors befriends a respectable girl (Fay Wray) to the extent of letting her be his cook, slick Brodie promptly makes her his fiancée. When Connors gives little Swipes a spanking which causes him to run away, Brodie gives him a home. Still, Steve Brodie has no saloon. When two brewers offer to give...
...Sterling has served as Minister to the Irish Free State since 1927. At Dublin he is expected to be succeeded by William Walter McDowell, chairman of the Montana Democratic State Committee. Post Wheeler of Washington to Albania. A career diplomat, Mr. Wheeler's last post was in Paraguay. Fay des Portes of South Carolina to Bolivia. John Van Antwerp MacMurray of Maryland to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.** Minister MacMurray's appointment was of major significance as it foreshadowed his selection as first U. S. Ambassador to Soviet Russia when diplomatic relations are resumed. As a young careerist...
...office walks Hugo Barnstead, to have a tooth pulled. Biff Grimes grimly turns on the gas, apparently planning to leave it on until Hugo is out of the way. Then comes a long flashback. It shows Biff Grimes, in youth a boastful lout, and Hugo (Neil Hamilton) meeting Virginia (Fay Wray) and her less exciting friend Amy Lind (Frances Fuller) at an amusement park; Hugo getting married to Virginia one evening when Biff thinks he has a date with her; Amy getting married to Biff, to console him. The door of Biff Grimes's office opens again...