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Last week Jake Kilrain, lately a night-watchman, died of cancer, heart disease and gangrene on the exact day the American Mercury appeared with this robust account of the almost incredibly titanic Kilrain-Sullivan battle. The story was the work of Oland D. Russell. Few ringside sportsmen 49 years ago would have wagered that the stumbling, blotched pulp of Jake Kilrain would serve him to a ripe age of 78. Almost as astonishing as his longevity was the Mercury's luck in timing Contributor Russell's story with Jake Kilrain's unpredictable death last week, the first...
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (Twentieth Century-Fox). Warner Oland, still cinema's most dependably entertaining detective, liberally equipped with aphorisms in pidgin English and accompanied by his No. 1 son, Keye Luke, interrupts a vacation to find out who stole a million dollars in bonds...
Charlie Chan on Broadway (20th Century-Fox). The widely-traveled, slant-eyed sleuth (Warner Oland) in his 15th manhunt...
Denverites liked his looks, which suggest Cinemactor Warner Oland playing Charlie Chan. Quick with compliments, Editor Davis got off on the right foot by saluting Denver as "the civilized capital of a glamorous, robust Rocky Mountain Empire with a culture of its own which I hope to understand and enter into...
...Charlie Chan's Secret" is rather disappointing to a Charlie Chan fan. We are afraid it would be a kindness to retire the noted detective before he comes to an ignominious end. It seems as though, Warner Oland would understand Addison's feeling that he would rather kill Sir Roger than have someone else disgrace...