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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three weeks ago two New Jersey troopers appeared at a police station in Manhattan's upper West Side, reported that a repair bill from a nearby garage had been found in the kidnappers' abandoned automobile. Police promptly notified local G-men, offered to cooperate with them on the case. The G-men preferred to work alone. New York City detectives and New Jersey troopers then discovered that Brunette had lately married a resident of upper Broadway, set a watch on her family's house. At this point, according to police, the G-men offered to join forces...
That afternoon the old friction between local and Federal law enforcement agencies flared up at its hottest. First anonymously, then in the person of hardboiled, up-from-the-ranks Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine, New York's police officials filled the newspapers with charges that G-Man Hoover had broken his agreement with them and, purely to make headlines and grab all the credit, had endangered the lives of bystanders and firemen by his unnecessary gunplay...
...these circumstances, and especially since Dictator Chiang has dissolved in North China all local branches of the Nanking Government's own political party at the behest of Japan (TIME, Nov. 9), the Tokyo Cabinet last week would have been naive had they not listened with incredulity and anger to what was coming through the Nanking censor. Angry Japan (and Japan was also puzzled) took the precaution of ordering impressive Japanese military units in North China to move slowly, tentatively down the railway toward Nanking...
...winter sports, the heroine .Hella Hartwich) goes to St. Moritz to learn. There she encounters two ski-larking jacks-of-all-trades (tall Walter Riml, tiny Guzzi Lantschner) who teach her to ski in the intervals when they are not clowning on skates or escaping from the local policeman. Becoming superbly skillful almost overnight, the heroine dresses as a man, shows up her fiance by beating him in the skijoring and bobsled races I hen he recognizes her, leads her astray m the slalom to a ski wedding with a dozen top-hatted ushers tail-wagging down the mountain...
...ably danced by talented and personable Grace & Kurt Graff. A little chocolate drop named Baby Marie Brown steals the first act finale, Grandma's Goin' to Town, by singing and dancing disguised as a midget mammy. The ingenue role is performed by Grace Herbert, a good-looking local night club entertainer, who delivers some of Composer Phil Charig's imperative tunes, among the best of which is the production's theme song...