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...gangster, later marries an honest youth of impeccable connections. The scandal of her past associations forces her back into disreputable surroundings but she is last seen reunited with her husband. Marie Prevost, now grown from a svelte ingenue into a buxom comedienne, gives a gay impersonation of a gun-moll's friend, but the picture should help kill the underworld's screen vogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 25, 1931 | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...headquarters armed with a monkey wrench to rescue the beautiful kidnapped daughter of a rich lawyer. There is more fun in The Gang Buster than its plot would indicate. Oakie is good and so is William Boyd as Gangster Mike Slade. Best shot: Wynne Gibson as a gangster's moll sending innocent Oakie out to telephone a rival gunman that Slade is paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 2, 1931 | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...been approached by both these governments: by the French with a proposal that French troops be permitted to march through the Tyrol against Italy in the event of war; by the Italians with a proposal that their troops be allowed to pass through another part of Austria, the Moll Valley, in case of war between Italy and Jugoslavia, chief Balkan ally of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Smoking Secrets | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

Montevideo to Manhattan. From Montevideo, Uruguay, a Colonel Cesario Berisso, Major Roget Otero and Mechanic Dagoberto Moll took off last week for a 15-stage flight via the Argentine, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico City, Laredo, New Orleans, Atlanta, Washington, to Manhattan, U. S. Army flyers two years ago included most of this route, on their goodwill voyage. So did the Italian flyer de Pinedo. But not yet has a South American accomplished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights of the Week: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Zasu Pitts carries the brunt of the work, doing a much more careful job as the gangster's moll than Ruth Chatterton, whose sobs as the mother bereft never equal the gusto of that master of the choked gurgle, Mr. Al Jolson (applause, a little scattered). When Mickey Bennett sits on the sofa with the little girl with the curls, and she attempts to pull his head down on her juvenile and probably bony breast, and he draws away, she says: "Don't you understand?" It's a talkie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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