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From Hell to Heaven (Paramount). Beginning with Jack Oakie's first speech, "People come and people go but nothing ever happens around here," this is a frank but entertaining composite of Grand Hotel and its imitations. An innovation is showing the characters at a racetrack. Carole Lombard comes to the track to test the faithfulness of her lover (Sidney Blackmer) before announcing to him the tidings of her divorce. David Manners and Adrienne Ames come as a harried young couple attempting to recoup purloined funds, closely tracked by Detective Jackson who is persuaded to content himself with shooting Crook...
Aside from being a harmless, rapid, amusing little program picture, No Man of Her Own will recommend itself to a large portion of the cinema public because Babe Stewart, the gambler, is Clark Gable, borrowed from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to play opposite Carole Lombard. Typical shot: Gable-whose animal appeal is abated somewhat by a constant sucking at his teeth-persuading Miss Lombard to climb a ladder in her library so that he can admire her from below...
King Albert of the Belgians, experienced mountaineer, scaled the sheer pinnacle of Crozzon di Brenta, 10,247 ft. high, one of the most difficult climbs in the Lombard Alps. It took him ten hours...
...lack of funds, three pre-Civil War colleges have been closed in the past three years: Lombard (Galesburg, Ill), Irving (Mechanicsburg, Pa.), St. Mary's (St. Marys, Kans...
...Bachrach, Philip Boyer, Jr., A. O. Brooks, J. A. Bross, C. M. Campbell, Jr., C. E. Channing, David Crocker, H. M. David, R. D. deRhan, L. A. Francisco, I. B. Hardy, Jr., O. C. Holder, Alfred Kidder 2nd, J. H. Leatherbee, G. P. Lewis, G. F. F. Lombard, J. A. Luetkemeyer...