Word: gents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting at the Metropolitan theatre on Friday is James Cagney's latest Warner production "Jimmy The Gent" with Bette Davis. The picture is from an original screen story written especially for Cagney and presents the popular star in the type of role the movie public want to see him portray. The story is based on a new angle of a "smart guy's" get rich quick scheme and is filled with laughs and thrilling situations. Supporting the two stars is a cast of prominent screen players headed by Alice White, Allen Jenkins, Arthur Hohl and Allen Dinchart...
...House, a long and delightful association which I am glad to renew." Correspondents did not miss the genuine cordiality between these two grey-heads. In Robert Walton Moore, 74-year-old Virginia bachelor. President Roosevelt had given Secretary Hull, aged 62, an old-time Democratic friend to replace intelli gent but insubordinate Raymond Moley. Assistant Secretary Moore would not clash on policy with Secretary Hull, would not run to 'the President with tales of his superior's incapability, would not divide the Department of State into hostile fac tions. "Judge" Moore, whose honorary title...
Prince Mike Romanoff, alumnus of Princeton, Harvard, Oxford. Eaton, and several sister institutions, has disappointed his host of admirers. This lightning witted gent who rose from a New York orphanage and sundry reform schools to be lionized by social registries here and abroad has belied his career...
...Klopstokia is a ratty major-domo (Andy Clyde). He practices, on the way to the games, by getting out of the train and running along beside it. Later he wins the mile race by accident when chasing a girl on a motorcycle to give her a letter. Lady & Gent (Paramount). Throughout this picture George Bancroft has a miserable time. He is Slag Bailey, a superannuated pugilist who turns up drunk for the bout on which his manager (James Gleason) has bet their last nickel. Beaten, his ruin is completed when his mistress. Puff (Wynne Gibson), has her night club wrecked...
This much of the picture is in the mood of recent writing which, finding pugilism a subject suitable for one-syllable prose, has diligently deprived it of whatever romantic aspects it may once have possessed. The rest of Lady & Gent is in quite another mood. At the house where they suspect the manager has hidden the money, Puff and Slag find instead a small boy. They adopt him. Slag gets a job in the steel mill. Puff becomes a model hausfrau. They send the boy through school and college. The climax arrives when the youth, already a college football hero...