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...State Assembly, with a whoop and a halloa, passed the bill 68-to-8. When the bill reached the State Senate, the great oil lobby swung into line, got filling stations exempted. While Sacramento stewed in summer heat, ice companies won exemption. To Sacramento went a handsome young proprietress of a beauty shop chain: stores selling wares "incidental to personal service" were exempted. That probably let out the dental parlor chain of "Painless Parker." Chief target remained the 1,274 stores of food chains, Safeway, Piggly Wiggly, Mac Marr, Pay'n Takit, but also hit were such chains...
Near Barrington about mid-afternoon Agents Cowley and Hollis spotted Illinois license No. 639-578 on a Ford containing two men and a blonde woman. Recognizing that as Nelson's number they gave hot chase. The proprietress of a filling station saw the two automobiles come roaring down the highway at 70-odd m. p. h., each one spitting bullets. Near the filling station, the agents pulled abreast of the fleeing outlaws. Tires shrieked as the Ford swerved into a side road. The Federal car screeched and skidded about 100 ft. down the highway before Agent Hollis could bring...
...from Reno to the coast, of two nervous, overdressed divorcees with their languid chauffeur (Frank McHugh ) ; an itinerant bankrobber's bashful greeting to a brash female hitchhiker; a Mexican peasant apologizing for the Ford which contains his wife, children, chicken coop and guitar. Aline MacMahon ably portrays the proprietress, a calm, ugly, unhappy woman gloomily trying to conceal her emotion when brought face to face with a man she is trying to forget. Ann Dvorak plays her young sister, infatuated with a poolroom loafer in the nearest village. What prevents Heat Lightning from being a first rate picture...
Hips, Hips, Hooray (RKO). "Frisby's Beauty Products" is another business enterprise in which girls sing, dance and tub. The opulent proprietress (Thelma Todd) and a pretty salesgirl (Dorothy Lee) meet two preposterous persons (Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey) who sell flavored lipstick. They dance a lively ballet in a stranger's office, plug a pleasant song: "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin.' " Admirers of the agonized smile of small Wheeler and the brisk dignity of cigar-chewing Woolsey will relish the automobile race which they win after a cyclone whirls them up into...
Tillie and Gus (Paramount). Tillie (Alison Skipworth) is the dilapidated proprietress of a waterfront gambling house in China. Gus (W. C. Fields) is a down-at-heels Alaskan gambler, who has just escaped being lynched for murder. Long since divorced, Gus and Tillie are reunited by the terms of Tillie's brother's will: he bequeaths them an antique mortgage-ridden ferryboat. Living on the boat when Tillie and Gus come to claim it are Tillie's niece (Jacqueline Wells), her husband and an imperturbable infant (Baby LeRoy). It becomes necessary, in order to thwart a rival...