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Having cornered all of the student concessions, made himself a pile of money, patched up the lovers' quarrel, Mr. Holtz makes an ingratiating grimace at the audience and the show ends. Best tunes: "You Said It," "Learn to Croon." Best hoofing: by the easy-going Slate Brothers. Miss Lawlor (Queen High, Good News) and her handsome friend Stanley Smith of Hollywood (The Sophomore, Sweetie) do very nicely...
...scare her away from a house she has rented. All the devices have been used before and the efforts of Director Roland West, Chester Morris and a good cast to give them distinction are largely wasted. Typical shot: people falling down an airshaft but saved from death by a pile of laundry at the bottom...
...Pope still maintains his home in San Mateo, near San Francisco, but he has not been in it for four years. He lives with a huge pile of suitcases, his wife Dr. Phyllis Ackerman (an authority on Gothic tapestries) and the family mascot, a small, bronze, one-eared goat from the time of Darius the Great. The goat's name is Hugo...
...because he kept his title safe by fighting only at catchweights, Battalino ran into one of Chocolate's short, clean punches, went down for a count of eight, tottered when he arose, apparently hopelessly beaten. But he lasted out the round, was stronger in the next, soon began to pile up points, crowding Chocolate all the time, whipping clumsy but effective hooks to the blackamoor's kinky head and antlike thorax. After 15 rounds of it, referee and judges agreed that "cheese champion" was a real champion but the crowd, liking Chocolate's style, booed, tore up programs...
...wrote to squelch, did squelch, the publicly expressed resentment at her practice of remaining inaccessible year after year, in mourning for her beloved husband, Prince Consort Albert. Although published "anonymously," the letter was discreetly made known as from the Royal hand. When a pile of letters from people he did not know was brought to the late, great Georges Clemenceau he usually threw away the signed ones, read the anonymous "because letters people write but do not sign always contain what is really in their hearts...