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...Moto's Gamble. Twentieth Century-Fox called Mr. Moto (Peter Lorre) into the Gamble case (originally called Charlie Chan at the Ringside) after the disappearance from the Fox Western Avenue studios last January of Hon. Detective Chan (Warner Oland). One day during production he stepped out to the water cooler, failed to return, leaving the Ringside case unsolved and Twentieth Century-Fox in danger of being $100,000 out of pocket. The availability of Mr. Moto saved the $100,000, added a feather to the cap of resourceful Producer Sol M. Wurtzel. Later found at his home, Hon. Chan...
Judges for the evening will be the Hon. Stanely E. Qua, Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Professor Felix Frankfurter, of the Law School, and John J. Burns, former Massachusetts Superior Court Justice and former general counsel...
Working (boxers, collies, German shepherds, great Danes, etc.). Judge of working dogs was the Hon. Townsend Scudder whose Greenwich, Conn, neighbors have gone to law because his 70 spaniels yap so loud. He picked a sable & white Chicago collie, Ch. Hertzville Headstone, undefeated in 19 shows...
...Wife of General Ling (Gaumont British), as a timely reminder that the sun never sets on the British accent, lay, its scene in British Crown Colony Hon -Kong. There it huffs & puffs until it blows down the house of double-dealing Genera1 Ling. Most imperial gesture: Actor Alan Napier, as the film's aptly named Governor Buckram, stepping out unarmed before a nasty-looking horde of Chinese bandits, demanding and getting their supine surrender...
Although no one suspects Major the Hon. John Jacob Astor, proprietor of the London Times and brother-in-law of famed Nancy, of having taken "Nazi gold," his great journal has gradually become sufficiently pro-German to provoke international reactions. Not long ago that famed "Thunderer," the Times, editorialized...