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...London, Publisher Gannett's candidacy immediately hit a snag. "Bang the trumpet and blow the drum," began a sarcastic attack in Sir Walter Layton's pro-New Deal Star. "For the first time in history, an American Presidential boom-or boomlet-has been started in London." In the U. S., Columnist Heywood Broun gave Candidate Gannett "Hindiana, Hiowa and Harkansas." In Manhattan, the Daily News chortled: "If Lord Beaverbrook has his way . . . and Roosevelt runs against him-boy, what a dish Gannett will...
...arrested in Wilmington, Del. for stealing two bedspreads. Three months after that sentence expired, he stole a suitcase from an automobile. So last week he was in trouble again. Joe Buzzard's venerable age saved him from Delaware's famed whipping post. Chief Justice Daniel Layton's remarks as he sentenced him to two more years, however, were sufficiently humiliating: "You're old enough to know better." Joe Buzzard agreed. The suitcase for whose theft he began his 14th jail term belonged to a shoe salesman, contained nothing but tennis shoes, all for the left foot...
...Carol Layton (Jean Harlow), bright sprig of an old family of Saratoga horse fanciers, comes home from England engaged to a New York socialite named Hartley Madison (Walter Pidgeon), whose bankroll is more impressive than his sophistication. To Carol's father's crony, Bookmaker Duke Bradley (Clark Gable) this is good news indeed. He takes it for granted that Carol's only possible object in becoming affianced to a rich nincompoop is to provide financial succor for her father and his friends. Actually Duke, who falls in love with Carol, is quite right but Carol...
Bobby here is an orphan being brought up by an ex-slave way down south. Suddenly it appears that he is to inherit a large fortune and so he travels north to stay with his Yankee relatives, a Mr. and Mrs. Layton and his grandmother, played by May Robeson. The parents stumble through an impossible role as a stupid, unimaginative couple, the kind only Hollywood can discover...
...Harvey, who is always careful to dress somewhat badly. Rumpled Mr. Harvey slipped into the Pullman, spoke for a few minutes to Haile Selassie, then presented His Majesty to many an eminent, top-hatted friend of the League of Nations and of Ethiopia, including Economist Sir Walter Thomas Layton and Lord Allen of Hurtwood. They pressed upon His Majesty an engraved, though quite unofficial, scroll declaring...