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...whole is indifferent, with the exception of the performance of Charles Winninger, of Maxwell House Coffee fame, as Captain Andy Hawks. The role is not a particularly masterful one, but Winninger makes a sympathetic wise, and humorously appealing figure out of the old Showboat captain. Irene Dunne as Magnolia, and Allan Jones as Ravenal, make a good team; Miss Dunne makes a not-too-successfull appearance in black-face, about which the less said the better: Miss Dunne is not a comedienne...
Sitting high is Oilman Norton. When title questions are cleared up he will have cashed in by selling 5,500 acres in Rodessa to Socony-Vacuum's Magnolia Petroleum Co. for $15,000,000 and heavy royalties...
Helen Westley, with the magnificent eyes and nose of an owl, is Cap'n Andy's shrewish wife Parthy. Their daughter Magnolia, whose story is the sad old one of the girl married to a wastrel and abandoned, is Irene Dunne who, in black face and kinky wig, sings Gallivantin' Aroun'. Allan Jones, despite a good voice, makes Magnolia's Gaylord Ravenal into a handsome nonentity. Familiar to many a Show Boater will be Hattie McDaniel, an amiable and enormous Negro who helps Robeson with a rollicking song called Ah Still Suits...
...check for $7.40 marked "Insufficient Funds," the penniless wildcatter struck oil. In three or four years North & South Oil Co. made $2,000,000. Promoter Davis mailed checks for $200,000 to each of the two geologists who had left him flat. Later he sold his oil properties to Magnolia Petroleum Co. for $12,000,000, settled down to spend his fortune. One day in Texas he met an old schoolmate named J. Frank Davis, a Boston newshawk who had been grievously crippled in an accident. Edgar Davis suggested that Frank Davis write a play, offered to back it. Result...
...which the gang was suspected: a mail truck robbery of $100,000 in Warren, Ohio; another of $51,000 in Butler, Pa.; an American Railway Express truck robbery of $10,000 in Perth Amboy, N. J.; three Massachusetts bank robberies totaling $51,500; a $200,000 jewel robbery in Magnolia. Mass, last summer; the O'Connell kidnapping in Albany in 1933; the disappearance of New York's Judge Crater five years...