Word: heels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Statue of Liberty is 151 ft. from base to torch, in ft. from heel to top of head...
Hold Your Man (MGM). Jean Harlow is the pattern for every U. S. dance hall hostess whose hair responds to dye. Clark Gable is the apotheosis of the heel.* They therefore constitute an ideal starring team for a picture, of which the aim is to romanticize the love life of a Brooklyn strumpet and a petty thief...
...organized. From gangland has yet to come a reformed Capone to make converts as efficiently as he used to machine-gun rival racketeers. Nearest thing to an ex-gangster evangelist is the well-fed, twinkling tub-thumper who was billed last week at a church in a down-at-heel section of Brooklyn as Lou Hill. "Former Hijacker, Gambler, Confidence Man," a Chicago hoodlum turned holy. High point of imaginative Lou Hill's career was strong-arming on a Chicago newspaper route with the late Dion O'Banion, who was later killed in his flower shop, supposedly...
...with Duke is unique. There are 200 players on a side. Another reason is North Carolina's tennis coach, brown little John Kenfield who has been going down to Chapel Hill between seasons at the Lake Shore Country Club at Glencoe, Ill. since 1928. That spring the Tar Heels lost two matches. The next year they lost to Princeton. Since then they have lost to no one. Mild and affable in demeanor, North Carolina's Coach Kenfield is a strict disciplinarian. In 1930 he benched his No. i player for breaking training. Before he turned professional, he played...
Plot is the essential weakness of the film. The acting--what there is of it--is good, though long closeups of Cadel Zeddin registering speechlessness are a bit trying. Probably three of the six reels are taken up with hand-kissing and heel-clicking. Trude ron Molo, the mother, is a good actress, but gets little opportunity to be anything more than pleasant. There is, however, an under able fascination about life in German military schools which perhaps compensates for the mediocrity of other aspects of the production...