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What! No Beer? (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Most cinemaddicts in the U. S. find Jimmy Durante's exaggerated nose and chronic excitement an irresistibly comic combination. His frozen-faced teammate, Buster Keaton, is an attraction abroad where people cannot understand what either one is talking about. In this picture, misinterpreting radio reports of the election, Durante and Keaton purchase a brewery in the delusion that their enterprise is legal. Fortunately they are so incompetent that they make near beer in spite of themselves; when arrested, they are immediately set free. By acquiring an experienced braumeister, they are soon in dangerous...
Divorced. Joseph Francis ("Buster") Keaton, 35, film actor; and Natalie Talmadge Keaton. 29; in Los Angeles. Grounds: neglect. Died. Lieut.-Commander Vincent Arthur Clarke Jr., 41, onetime commander of U. S. S. Los Angeles; of blood poisoning; in Vallejo, Calif. Died. Vere Stuart Menteth Hutchinson, 41, novelist (Great Waters, Thy Dark Freight), sister of Novelist Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson (If Winter Comes); in London. Died. James C. Lawrence, 42, dean of administration at University of Minnesota, member of President Hoover's first Unemployment Relief Committee; by inhaling carbon monoxide; in Minneapolis. Died. Ray Austin Graham, 45, treasurer of Graham...
...lighter vein, Buster Keaton, is playing in "The Passionate Plumber," and for those who like Buster Keaton, there are some funny if familiar situations. Paris would be the setting, and the gestulations and excitability of the French must inevitably be relied upon to furnish many laughs...
...extent which other producers hoped would prove a reductio ad absurdum. The cast of Grand Hotel is the most celebrated, the most expensive in cinema history. It would surely have included other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stars (Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Marie Dressier, Robert Montgomery, Marion Davies, Buster Keaton, Jackie Cooper, John Gilbert, Ramon Novarro) if there had been a few more rooms in the Grand Hotel...
...Passionate Plumber (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The combination of Jimmy Durante and Buster Keaton in this picture (faintly derived from Her Cardboard Lover, which Leslie Howard and the late Jeanne Eagels acted on the stage) works out well. Durante is worried about his huge and remarkable nose. The nose is worried by the other characters who tweak it, pinch it, slam doors against it. Durante is an urbane but eccentric chauffeur who speaks French with a Brooklyn accent. He gets a chance to use his favorite word when Polly Moran, as a maidservant, rebuffs him with the door. ''You may think...