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...nineteen twenties gangster-moll-machines gun picture has gone with prohibition. But there is no law against taking the same plot, putting a WAVE, WAAC or other chic uniform on the heroine, wrapping it in an American flag and feeding it to the hordes of wishful Miniver Cheevies who frequent the institution of the movies, Saturday afternoon variety or otherwise...
...practitioner of the gentle art of elimination is a handsome, green-eyed youngster named Alan Ladd, billed as The Raven. A hired killer, he likes his work, and is not above saying so. Having polished off a blackmailer and his moll before breakfast he returns the stolen poison-gas formula to the chemical-company executive (Laird Cregar) who paid him to get it that way, and submits to one question: "How do you feel when you are doing a job like this?" Says The Raven, without batting an eye: "I feel fine." Before The Raven finally meets his maker...
...through the part of Erwin Trowbridge, a greeting-card rhyme writer who dreams hot tips about horse races. He falls into the hands of a gambler, Lionel Stander, who Jocks him in a hotel apartment and makes him dream up tips. Then there is Erwin's wife, Stander's moll, a lot of snappy lines, one or two good songs, and Banjo Eyes, the dreamland nag who whinnies out the tips...
George M. Cohan had an emergency operation for an abdominal lesion at Manhattan's Flower-Fifth Ave. Hospital. His doctor called it "quite serious," added: "He's going to get over it." ∙∙ In Hollywood Jimmie Durante broke a rib playing the part of a moll in an Apache dance. ∙∙ Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis lay in a Petoskey, Mich, hospital after a pneumonia attack. ∙∙ Oldtime Opera Star Lucrezia Bori, 53, turned up in Manhattan with her arm in a sling; she had broken her elbow in a fall off a horse. A piece...
...imported stars. In last week's Requiem the tenor soloist was an insurance agent, the baritone a city councilman who is in the sand business. A music-store clerk was the rollicking gangster hero of the 18th-Century low-lives in the Beggar's Opera; his moll was Ruth Ives, Converse voice teacher and operatic production manager...