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Danger-Love at Work (Twentieth Century-Fox). Junior Pemberton (Bennie Bartlett) had at ten the condescension of a fellow who was ready to enter Harvard. Uncle Alan (Walter Catlett) collected stamps. Brother Herbert (John Carradine) called himself a postsurrealist; he painted sublimations in bathrooms, on bay windows, hired a man to douse him with water when working on a marine subject. Mother Pemberton (Mary Boland) was notable for an insane kind of poise which she maintained even when the cook got drunk and had to be locked in the mop closet, or the downstairs maid tried to touch the family...
Amiably following the established for mula for stories about crazy families, Danger - Love at Work is unpretentious, well-paced and often very funny. Typical scene: Papa Pemberton trying to pick out the proper type of shotgun for use at a fashionable wedding...
...Marvin defeated Burwell 6-1, 6-1; Lichtig defeated Babcock by default; Easton defeated Sard 8-6, 6-2; Wyeth defeated Foote 6-1, 6-3; Caldwell defeated Elrod 0-6, 6-4, 6-3; Brooks defeated Weiggand 6-2, 6-3; Seamans defeated Story 12-10, 6-0; Pemberton defeated Sandt 3-6, 6-3, 9-7; Lowman defeated Blair...
...Kahn defeated Gaylor 6-3, 6-0; Ashley defeated Whitney 6-1, 6-2; Barlow defeated Starr 3-6, 6-4, 6-1; Marvin defeated Corish by default; Easton defeated Lichtig 6-0, 6-0; Wyeth defeated Caldwell by default; Brooks defeated Seamans 6-2, 6-3; Lowman defeated Pemberton...
Another Democrat seeking office is William J. Foley, whom Mr. Curley referred to as "the Dumb Dora of Pemberton Square," shortly after making him District Attorney. Since that time Boston has sunk steadily into the mire of corruption until now the town's law-breakers are not infrequently recruited from the police department. And if Foley is tarred with the same brush as his crst-while master, so is the Third Democrat, Maurice J. Tobin, whose election to the School Board Mr. Curley made possible. During Mr. Tobin's term of office one of the gravest scandals in the history...