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...crime as Mrs. Miller's, for in stance, were classed as a misdemeanor rather than a felony, it would not come under the "habitual" act. The Michigan court gave its imprimatur to the law, when a few days later it upheld the life sentence imposed upon one Fred Pal, Lansing rum peddler, who three times had been convicted of felony, convicted again for possessing a pint...
Hello Yourself, patterned after Good News, is described as a "rah rah musical comedy," to distinguish it, presumably, from those which are merely raw. Its plot concerns a collegiate playwright whose play wins the play contest after he has been threatened with expulsion from college for helping a "pal" pay a gambling debt. There are many agreeable details in Hello Yourself; among them the hushed rhythms with which Jimmy Ray moves his feet in soft shoes; the wild noises of Waring's Pennsylvanians; and the antics of disjointed Dorothy Lee who might have been drawn by John Held...
...because he does not want the burden of supporting his mother (Clara Langsner) to fall to his sister (Shirley Booth). He is drafted, sent to France. In a Y. M. C. A. hut he meets his onetime sweetheart (Lola Lane), learns she has married Eddie's onetime pal and fellow song-plugger (Raymond Guion), both of whom are singing and dancing for the delectation of the troops. From that point the story fizzles into a sequence of capture by the Germans when Eddie meets in a shell-hole an officer who had seduced his sister. Behind the German lines...
Hudkins-Walker. Ace Hudkins, pal of Charles Lindbergh, bouquet-lover, and broken nosed punch-drinker who fights flail-fisted, lunged after middleweight champion Mickey Walker in a wet ring in Chicago. Rain on the canvas was stained with the blood that flowed from the lips and noses of both men. Walker won two rounds, Hudkins five, the rest were even. When the referee, with finger pointing at Walker, yelled "The winner, and still champion. . . ." the crowd jumped up and booed for 15 minutes...
...Gloria Swanson-from sex appeal to genuine histrionics (including sex appeal). In this picture, she is a lady gangster who has not forgotten that the forces of the law "burned" her father in the electric chair. After a bank robbery and a narrow escape, she persuades her young pal (Richard Arlen) to give up the gun game, marry her, take her away to a little home in California. There she is as loving a wife as any man could wish. But her husband grows restless; he cannot be happy for long unless he has a gun in his hand...