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...Cardinals' Dizzy Dean, who amuses himself on hot days by lighting a little fire in front of the bench and pretending to be an Indian, who is so popular that when he pitches the club's advertisements say: "Dizzy Dean - in person." While pitching, Gomez chews gum. He throws with an easy overhand motion, balancing the backswing of his left hand with the upswing of a size-13 cleated shoe. The dignity and competence of his demeanor contrast strangely with the stories of his eccentricities. These are partly true, partly the framework of legend invented to support another...
...Talk It Over (Universal) deals with the efforts of a jaded socialite (Mae Clarke) to refurbish a brash, gum-chewing sailor (Chester Morris). The sailor becomes a prosperous gentleman but when he learns that the girl interested herself in him to win a bet. his wrath is great and he flays her and her rich friends for a pack of rotters. A nasty accident and a reconciliation follow. Cut to fit a familiar, frivolous and unpleasant pattern. Let's Talk It Over is not much to talk over...
...Johns Hopkins, later to the University of London's college of physiology and medical entomology. When War came he went to France to supervise latrine sanitation, iodization and chlorination of water, delousing. Using a pipette constantly he occasionally got a mouthful of tainted blood. That and the gum-hardening effect of precautionary alcohol gargles lost him all but a few of his teeth. He is married, has two children...
...glad that "corpses, when eminently newsworthy, will continue to find a place in TIME [May 14]. Your half million subscribers by no means gum-chewers, need to be shown that people in this country occasionally die a death...
...reporter and a low-grade actor uncover Nancy's true identity, are on the point of exposing her when the real Princess intervenes. Thirty Day Princess is light entertainment, competently acted. Typical shot: Nancy lulling the publisher's suspicions that she is also the Princess by chewing gum eating with her knife...