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Miss Millspaugh's running mate as "healthiest U. S. boy" was Mortimer Foxman, 16, 5 ft. 7¼ in., 133 lb., who after high-school hours works in his mother's Chicago electrical shop...
Friends of Mr. Sweeney (Warner). Asaph Holliday (Charles Ruggles), hero of this picture, is a journalistic guppy, small, ashamed and ludicrous, writing timid editorials in a journal of opinion called The Balance. When his old college mate, Rixey (Eugene Pallette), arrives in town, a change takes place in Asaph. He calls up his assistant (Ann Dvorak) and orders her to come to dinner. At a swank night club, to which he gains admittance by saying to the doorman "We are friends of Mr. Sweeney," he gambles coolly with $1,000 chips under the impression that they cost $1. Finally, with...
...servants say that Oscar must be nearly as old as the President's son, spruce Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg. With his nameless mate Oscar spends his winters in Africa, as do most East Prussian storks, but summer finds him always back at Neudeck to bring not babies but good luck to the 86-year-old Reichspräsident. In backward, superstitious East Prussia nothing is so unlucky for a great landed Junker as to lose his stork. "Take care of Oscar" the President benignly commands when leaving Neudeck, and Oscar, so peasants think, takes care of Old Paul...
...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...
...Another surprise has been the performance of Boston, under its new owner, Thomas Yawkey. For his team this year Mr. Yawkey had a rebuilt stadium and an almost completely new roster of players including famed Robert Moses Grove who was Mickey Cochrane's longtime battery mate on the Athletics. Without Cochrane, Grove's pitching has not been up to scratch. Even so the Red Sox, consistent tail-enders in their league for the last nine years, were last week in third place, two games ahead of the hard-hitting Cleveland Indians. Washington was in fifth place. Philadelphia...