Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eddie Hall (Clark Gable) is first seen scampering up a flight of brownstone steps to get away from a policeman. He scuttles into the first convenient room, which contains Jean Harlow taking a bath. There begins almost immediately a courtship conducted, as is customary in such cine mas, by means of cohabitation. Unfortunately, before Eddie and Ruby (Jean Harlow) have had time to become less intimately acquainted, he attempts a feat of larceny too difficult for his abilities...
...Youngsters equipped with keys, devices to short circuit ignition switches, etc., are hired to do the actual thieving. They drive the stolen car to an agreed spot where others pick it up and take it to a fence who strips it, dumps it out in a deserted street. A policeman finds it. and he (probably not having been paid for several months) may take off a few more parts to help support his family. The police then "let out'' to a garage the business of towing in and storing stolen cars till the owners are found. The garage...
...barrier. Watch Her succeeded in throwing her jockey, Tony Pascuma. She ran riderless down the chute which cuts across the infield, then twice around the 1½-mi. track, and finally, before anyone could catch her, jumped a fence and started toward her stable. A mounted policeman caught her running toward the third jump on a nearby steeplechase course, brought her back to the post. By this time-32 minutes after the horses had first lined up-bookmakers who expected that she would be too tired to run at all had increased the odds on Watch Her from...
...POLICEMAN-John Rhode, Helen Simpson. Gladys Mitchell, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Milward Kennedy-Morrow ($2). With the aid of an ingenious setting-the murder of a belligerent newspaper publisher-four famed members of the Detection Club trade characters to make fit fare for post-graduate mystery readers...
...persons innocently trapped in a dilemma which was the chief characteristic of Dreiser's book. Donald Cook, Sylvia Sidney and a character actress named Greta Meyer, in the role of an old cousin who takes care of Jennie's daughter, are perfectly cast. Good sequence: A policeman arresting Lester when, for a joke, he is pretending to be trying to scrape acquaintance with Jennie...