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...left Sid with $250, which he promptly lost in a crap game. He picked up the concession for selling newspapers from the States - buying them for 18?, selling them for a dollar. He sold the first paper for $50 to the late, great and witty confidence man, Wilson Mizner, only to see Mizner charge 500 illiterate miners 50? apiece to read them the news...
...dialog for The Mind-Reader, written by the late Wilson Mizner and Robert Lord, is a good example of the reportorial comedy-melodrama school, but the brash antics of Allen Jenkins are the most amusing thing about the picture. He takes money from both his employers for keeping their doings secret from each other, gives a fellow chauffeur $5 for information which Chandra can resell...
Died, Wilson Mizner, 56, Klondike prospector, playwright, wit, manager of Boxer Stanley Ketchel, gambler, Florida land boomer (with his Architect Brother Addison), scenario writer; of a heart attack after six months' illness; in Los Angeles. To each of two nieces he willed $1 in cash, left the rest of his estate to "my friend, Florence Atkinson of Los Angeles," onetime cinemactress...
...tricks of press-agentry which Authors Wilson Mizner and Robert Lord have thought up for Cagney, even the few which are carefully outlined, can scarcely be considered monuments of ingenuity. The best is his stunt of advertising a vanishing cream, which does not vanish, as a fat remover, on the assumption that purchasers will lose weight trying to rub it in. Unlike Lee Tracy's somewhat similar picture, The Half Naked Truth, Hard to Handle depends less upon journalistic exaggerations about an exciting profession than upon the personality of its principal. Cagney, talking and galloping a little faster than...
Died. Addison Mizner, 60, famed Palm Beach host, raconteur, realtor, author (The Many Mizners), architect credited with reviving Spanish architecture in Florida, son of the late Architect Lansing Bond Mizner who planned San Francisco; of a heart attack after a two-month illness; in Palm Beach, Fla. Just before he died he received a telegram from his brother Wilson, "Stop dying. Am trying to write a comedy." He replied, "Am going to get well. The comedy goes...