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From Hell to Heaven (Paramount). Beginning with Jack Oakie's first speech, "People come and people go but nothing ever happens around here," this is a frank but entertaining composite of Grand Hotel and its imitations. An innovation is showing the characters at a racetrack. Carole Lombard comes to the track to test the faithfulness of her lover (Sidney Blackmer) before announcing to him the tidings of her divorce. David Manners and Adrienne Ames come as a harried young couple attempting to recoup purloined funds, closely tracked by Detective Jackson who is persuaded to content himself with shooting Crook...
Miami Jockey Club announced that his Hialeah racetrack would continue its race meet though cash shortages had closed the tracks at Agua Caliente and New Orleans...
...Telegraph is a 100-year-old paper catering exclusively to showfolk and followers of the turf. At some periods it has handled general news but for the past two years it has been bound by an inflexible rule to print only news of stage, screen, racetrack. It was probably the only daily in the U. S. which carried not one line about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, to which it was unable to find a Broadway '"angle...
Born in Grand Junction, Colo, of a racetrack family-his father and an older brother were jockeys-Hank Mills became famed suddenly in Miami last winter when he rode 27 winners in 16 days. Trainer James Fitzsimmons of the Wheatley Stables, owned by Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills (no kin to Jockey Mills) and his sister, Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps, quickly bought Hank Mills's contract for $7,500. This year, Jockey Mills has had 779 mounts, 169 winners, 141 seconds.* He won the Brooklyn and Brookdale Handicaps with Blenheim, the Shevlin Stakes on Faireno. the Potomac...
...Washington Park racetrack, Chicago, Paul Bunyan, racehorse, bit at a fly on his chest, bit himself, had to be withdrawn from his race...