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Marion Gering's direction moves the story along fast without hurrying it, borrows the advantages of a close temporal unity without making it seem tricky by overemphasis. Clive Brook, Kay Francis and Miriam Hopkins give well-toned performances. Miriam Hopkins has two torch or porch songs, sings them with the right professional air. Good shot: Clive Brook, preoccupied by his troubles, saying good night to a saloon proprietor. Bad shot: Kay Francis deciding to take what she calls "the thoroughbred...
...Angeles, Bishop Gorman arrived last week in Reno bringing with him his own publicity man, Fred V. Williams. Day after his arrival he was formally installed in old brick St. Thomas Aquinas Church, which is now elevated to the rank of Cathedral (congregation: 1,100 families). From its porch he could look across the street to El Cortez Hotel, where lives many a divorce-seeker. Five blocks away is "Gamblers' Row"-Douglas Alley and Center St. Eight blocks away is the Reno Court House, where Monday "wash-days" are held...
Died. Lester Lonergan, 62, actor (Brass Ankle) who staged Abraham Lincoln, The Command to Love; of heart failure while-sitting on a porch with his wife at Lynn, Mass., discussing Eugene O'Neill's newtrilogy, Mourning Becomes Electro, in which he was to have played...
...Tottenville, N. Y. two grubby poodles dozed on the broken flagging beside the back porch of a two-story frame house one day last week. On the upper porch crawled Joseph Freyer, 14 months. He found a place where balusters were missing from the balustrade, crawled through, plumped 18 ft. down on the dozing dogs, was unhurt. So were the poodles...
...stone into a stout bag, and with some neighbors walked over to the river, into which he heaved the loaded bag. It floated down the river, over the falls, into the rapids 123 feet below. The party strolled back to Mr. Quick's home. On the front porch squatted the cat, licking its broken...