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Funny material to be purveyed by the new syndicate had a heavy rural cast. As a possible substitute for the wise saws of the late Humorist Will Rogers, which McNaught Syndicate sold to 500 newspapers, Esquire Features offered a daily 150-word gag from Bob Burns, onetime vaudevillian whose radio hillbilly and cinema humor and music on a home-made "bazooka" were last week estimated in Variety to be earning him $400,000 a year."* Pictorial humor was to be furnished by Esquire Cartoonist Paul Webb's "Mountain Boys," a group of grotesque, bearded, barefooted figures. In the current...
...when newspapers start blasting free education. Without the agitation of Hearst papers throughout the land a mean, suspicious, and scurillous attack on the teaching profesion might never have occurred. The utter vacuity of the oath does not matter. What we have is a potent group of papers attempting to gag discussion of controversial subjects by teachers, but demanding that very privilege and power for itself alone...
...because producers feel that the season will excuse shortcomings or diminish protests -has long manufactured a staple product known as "summer fare." The Bride Walks Out is a fair sample of it, one of the minor discomforts of hot weather, to be classed with mosquitoes and warm mayonnaise. Typical gag (by Sparks): "Maybe if I get fired, Millie will divorce me. There I go, daydreaming again...
Ruth Chatterton, who has been making pictures since who knows when, is starred in "Lady of Secrets", a rather incredible but touching movie. She is really not Joan's (Marian Marsh) sister but her mother, and that gag has been pulled a little too often for a gag that wasn't too good in the first place. However, her romance with the unjustly treated war-victim Michael (Lloyd Nolan) and her patching-up of her sister-daughter's love affair in the face of cruel father Lionel Atwill are interesting. Otto Kruger plays a wealthy anthropologist and sportsman convincingly...
...followed Lawyer Deutsch's original. So, to everyone's surprise, did Associate Justice George Sutherland's opinion, which threw the Louisiana tax out not on the basis of discrimination but on the basis of the First Amendment. In a decision which surpassed even the famed Minnesota Gag Law case for liberality, Mr. Justice Sutherland also traced the history of newspaper taxation from Milton, through Queen Anne to the Revolution. Then he established a resounding precedent for freedom...