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...Clark Gable (with the latter's name in larger type in all press advertisements except in Hearstpapers). But the combination contributes nothing to Miss Davies' reputation as a comedienne, nor to Mr. Gable's conquests as No. 1 U. S. cinema lover. Polly (Miss Davies), a pert, saucy trapeze artist, is badly hurt during her act and taken to the nearby house of a young bachelor rector (Mr. Gable) who shelters her during her two-month recuperation. Mutual love develops. Mr. Gable's parishioners hold their tongues until it is discovered that Miss Davies was seen...
...March of Time" is vibrant and volatile, pithy and pert, with a minimum of advertising chatter. Would you force your listeners to a life of listening to tooth paste propaganda and vacuum-headed crooners...
...Bernarr Macfadden's vulgar Graphic. Publisher Kobler objected to Winchell's appearance in vaudeville. He objected to Winchell's radio broadcasts (currently for Lucky Strike), charging that he gave out news to which the paper was first entitled. He removed the colyumist's smart, pert secretary Ruth Cambridge from the payroll (Winchell has since paid her salary) and required him to pay for his own stationery, telephone and telegraph tolls...
...lovely, flaccid Helen of Troy could be profitably refurbished by giving her pert ideas of her own in a modern novel, what is to hinder a ribby old cow from knowing a thing or two of the world's ways and expressing herself in song? The ribby old cow may be too old for milk. To be comprehensible to humans, she may have to make herself ridiculous, become a synthetic vaudeville kind of beast with humans installed fore & aft to walk, talk and sing for her. Even so, such a cow serves excellently to point the plot of Jack...
Producers Schwab & Mandel have assembled a notable troupe of beauteous girls for Free For All. Among them: Lilian Bond, whom Oscar's uncle Arthur Hammerstein put in Luana last year before he went bankrupt (TIME, April 6); Vera Marsh of America's Sweetheart; pert Dancer Dorris Groday; Jeanette Loff. late of Hollywood (The King Of Jazz); Dorothy Knapp. a "Most Beautiful Woman In The World" for Earl Carroll and Flor- enz Ziegfeld; lovely Tamara (The Wunder...