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...Angel (Paramount). When the fiancee of a young man whom she is trying successfully to seduce calls at her penthouse, Tira (Mae West) is not amused. "I'll trouble you to scram," she says, gesticulating with her hips. When she has pushed her caller through the door, Tira feels the need of light refreshment. "Beulah, peel me a grape," she tells her maid...
...since leaving Warner Brothers last spring, Darryl Zanuck did what any smart producer might have tried but what very few could have carried off. From the sad look that comes into Wallace Beery's piggish eyes when he examines Jackie Cooper, to the sofa-pillow figure popularized by Mae West. Zanuck put in practically everything that cinema audiences have particularly patronized for the last two years. As a framework, he had Howard Estabrook and James Gleason fabricate a picaresque story about rival saloonkeepers on Manhattan's famed Bowery, just before the war with Spain...
...dancing Indian in a war bonnet (see p. 50 ). Walter Damrosch was with the radio people; little old Charles Winninger led the actors. Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel's costumed choristers from Radio City cut capers on the asphalt. Paramount had four imitation Marx Brothers and six Mae Wests. Some Army signalers paused in front of the reviewing stand to fly 50 pigeons back to Washington with greetings to the President. The Stock Exchange crowd had a band of Scotch pipers. The Cotton Exchange people had a band which just played "Dixie...
...Free-for-All. Seven started for the $10,000 free-for-all prize. Three finished, with redoubtable Jimmy Wedell winning at 245.95 m.p.h. in the same Wedell-Williams which Mae Haizlip nosed over the previous day after winning the women's free...
...amusement park; Hugo getting married to Virginia one evening when Biff thinks he has a date with her; Amy getting married to Biff, to console him. The door of Biff Grimes's office opens again and in walks Virginia, looking and acting like a cut-rate Mae West. Dr. Grimes turns off the gas just in time to get Hugo and his wife safely out of the office, calls Mrs. Grimes and takes her proudly for a walk. "Good shot: Snappy Downer wincing as he watches Dr. Grimes pull Hugo Barnstead's tooth...