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...chain of their own. Brother Boris enlisted in the U. S. Army in Wartime, thereby gained U. S. citizenship. After the War the Magids abandoned their post at Kiana and founded others along the coast. Sam Magids died in 1929, and his widow, known as Queen Bess in Nome, later joined Boris in the business...
...depend on how familiar they are with earlier West efforts from which the current one differs only in detail. This time she is a San Francisco strumpet who knifes her Chinese paramour, slips on board an Alaska-bound freighter, enraptures its captain (Victor McLaglen), befriends a churchworker bound for Nome, usurps her identity when she dies, lands in Nome as Sister Annie Alden, enslaves a young territorial police officer (Philip Reed), renounces him rather than ruin his career, returns to San Francisco to face the music. As usual, the comedy depends mainly upon the incongruity between Mae West...
...past six months Alaska's 60,000 inhabitants have tucked away 700,000 gal. of alcoholic beverages. Last week, on Repeal's birthday, a group of the more responsible Eskimos at Nome besought the Territorial Board of Liquor Control to make it a crime even to give one of their tribesmen liquor...
...Dream Too Much (RKO) is an operatic formula picture, cut to fit the coloratura voice, the small, neat form, the pretty face and the sharp French accent of Lily Pons. The operatic basis for its plot is the one which enables Miss Pons to carol Caro Nome from Rigoletto to her provincial music teacher, to make a big splash in Paris, to exhibit her navel in Hindu undress as she negotiates the spectacular Bell Song from Lakmé. Introducing a second formula, Henry Fonda, a U. S. musician who thinks he can compose opera, picks up Miss Pons, performs...
Died. John ("Old Itchfoot") Swanson, 65, onetime rich, notorious gold prospector; in Los Angeles. He went to Nome in the 1890's, staked out the "Little Minook" mine, gathered in $15,000 a day for a great many days, was a crony of Tex Rickard, Rex Beach, Jack London and "Klondike Kate" Rockwell, poured his money in a yellow river across the gambling tables. Broke, hoping for another big strike, he succumbed in a dismal flophouse last week to acute indigestion...