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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dorothy Peterson's efficient common-sense provides the suitable background for the doctor's homely philosophy and Slim Summerville is an amusing although unconvincing country constable. Thomas Qualen carries through his biggest assignment as a proud father with great success while June Lang and Michael Whalen both turn in good bits in their unfortunately brief appearances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/21/1936 | See Source »

...neighborhood playhouse. Mr. Evers (Jed Prouty) is the father of a "typical American family." He has a spry old mother (Florence Roberts) whose two loves are slang and coffee, a complacent wife (Spring Byington), five children who exemplify all the traditionally wholesome traits of youth. Bonnie (June Lang) is the 18-year-old apple of her father's eye except that she goes around with Clark Newall (Thomas Beck), spoiled son of the idle rich. Jack at 17 is absorbed in his first dinner jacket. Roger at 12 is a sharp little banker charging his brothers usury. Lucy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...After continued rebukes for his nagging by his own old mother, and his 17-year-old son's timely first-aid treatment of a little brother, Pa Jones finally softens up, rewarding the boy with a secondhand car and an ample allowance. The cast, aside from June Lang and Thomas Beck, is not well known...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: PARAMOUNT & FENWAY | 2/28/1936 | See Source »

...hockey game in which a French player bit a Hungarian in the arm. More remarkable than the games themselves was the behavior of the guests, whose antics, touched by the sparkle of a gala sports event, kept transatlantic cables buzzing through the week. ¶In nearby Oberammergau, famed Anton Lang, Christus of the Passion Play, grew excited over radio accounts, went over to Garmisch to see what they were all about. An expert winter sportsman, he watched the fancy skaters, wagged his grey beard with approval when Germany's Karl Schafer got the gold medal. ¶U. S. Columnist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Games at Garmisch (Cont'd) | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...carrying an expired license. Next Socialite Sportswoman Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, was picked up for driving on the wrong side of a bridge at 40 m. p. h. While Mmes Harriman and Whitney awaited trial, the police stopped a fourth speeder, collected $8 from Professor Anton Lang Jr, of Georgetown University, son of the one-time Christus of the Oberammergau Passion Play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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