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...wanted to make Sutler's Gold. . They preached box-office to me ... Nice elderly ladies said Mrs. Sutter should be pictured as a nicer character. . . . And the Daughters of Something-or-Other got interested and raised a row. ... A Major Pease and his Blue Shirts said I was a 'Red Dog.' . . . And the producers complained that I didn't seem to get sex appeal. . . . And the race question entered into my difficulties, too, and I don't mean the Negro race...
...Doucet, slow and enormously fat, kept up easy-running accompaniments. The Vivaldi-Bach Concerto and a Mozart Sonata made the bulk of their program, but the U. S. has been used to hearing its own Maier & Pattison team (now disbanded- TIME, March 2), play the Great Ones with far nicer balance and finesse. The Frenchmen scored with their jazz, the sort of thing which made Le Boeuf s reputation and has since stood transplanting into a thousand and more concerts. There was an arrangement of Braham's "Limehouse Blues," given a dozen sombre shades by Doucet's insinuating...
...Taylor had to leave through a window. Life was not all work. The white boys had a game "Stray Goose." One boy ran, until caught and pummeled. Taylor helped. When he was 16 he put on a cowboy's costume and strutted to a dance. The girls were nicer than Big Maude's. He began to dream and want money. He told his mother what he had heard of Wall Street. She looked grim, so he ran away to Minneapolis...
Frozen Justice (Fox). Melodramas like this, arranged against backgrounds of snow and wintry seas, have been fine vehicles for that smart dog, Rin Tin Tin. Lenore Ulric is nicer to look at than
Excerpt: "We'll have most of our meals at home?it's so much nicer than eating in restaurants and hotels. And besides we don't have enough money to waste any on expensive meals and theatres. John will come home for luncheon every noon...