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...important a star Shirley Temple was to be became apparent with her second picture, Little Miss Marker. In this, still getting $150 a week, she appeared with Adolphe Menjou, Charles Bickford the late Dorothy Dell. The picture played three weeks at the New York Paramount equaled the record of Mae West's She Done Him Wrong, caused Fox to produce a story written especially for Cinemactress Temple called Baby, Take...
Midnight Alibi (First National). Short stories by Damon Runyon generally mix good-hearted guttersnipes with nice old ladies (Lady For a Day) or babies (Little Miss Marker). The contrast makes good cinema fare. Midnight Alibi deals with a gangster named Lance (Richard Barthelmess), a rival gangster named Angie, Angie's sister (Ann Dvorak) with whom Lance is in love, and an old lady (Helen Lowell). The old lady lives in a brownstone house opposite Angie's night club. When Lance, running away from Angie's gunman, comes through her back door, she takes an interest...
...Offensive in spots" were Stand Up and Cheer, Shoot the Works (see col. 3), The Thin Man, The Constant Nymph, It Happened One Night, Tarzan and His Mate, We're Not Dressing, Little Miss Marker, As the Earth Turns...
Baby, Take A Bow (Fox) is carried almost single-handed by hardworking, hard-worked 4-year-old Shirley Temple. Three months ago Fox discovered that she was excellent adult entertainment in the otherwise mediocre Stand Up And Cheer. Immediately Paramount borrowed her for Little Miss Marker. While this picture was proving a thumping box office success all over the country. Fox ground out Baby, Take a Bow. For the sweatshop pace which has pushed Shirley Temple through an average year's work in four months they had a good business-like reason: growing children shoot overnight into gangling youngsters...
Yale's remaining marker came in the eighth. It looked as if it was Harvard's day by long odds, and Captain Loughlin began to ease up from the pitcher's box. He passed Williamson, Curtin singled, and Dugan filled the sacks when Charley Nevin had trouble with a grounder. Then Armstrong again caused trouble with his bat. This time it was a tricky bounding grounder that Johnny Adzigian failed to hold on to. In came Williamson, making it Yale 2, Harvard 3. This was the final tally as the Blue went out in order thereafter...