Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speedway (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Automobile racing at Indianapolis is a background unfamiliar and colorful enough to make any sort of picture entertaining in spots. In this film about a whimsical mechanic's love life, the background is sketchily and conventionally treated. William Haines capitalizes his famed insouciance to the point of insufferability. Proving at the denouement that he is a good chap after all, he sacrifices the race to his pal, Ernest Torrence, best ac tor in the cast. Best shot: a car turning over on the track...
...Chinese are getting more and more cocky with each passing year, but to my mind that is the most hopeful sign visible in that country. No race is worth its salt that isn't cocky. Americans are cocky. The British are cocky. The French, Germans, Italians and other leading peoples of the earth are cocky, and it was precisely this trait that put them where they...
...prompt acceptance of this new responsibility saved an otherwise difficult and embarrassing situation. He had been very successful as a class crew coach and nothing but gratitude was felt by Harvard men when he stepped into a breach which the shortness of the time before the Yale race made impossible to fill in any other...
Remote Control. Effective plays may be fashioned about Love and Death and Vanity because these are common concern of the race. So is Radio, which can cause as much turmoil as any of the other three. Consider the malefactions at Chicago's station WPH. An ominous spiritualist called Dr. Workman was broadcasting questions with ghost-given answers. The studio was plunged in darkness, for only so could he connect with his wise phantoms. Whereupon an ugly bevy of Chicago's finest gunmen entered, stripped the jewelry from some debutantes who were about to advertise a Junior League extravaganza...
Santa Fe's Story on Air Transportation. Like the best of horsemen, who might try to make a race horse and a draft horse pull smoothly in a team, William Benson Storey has his troubles. He is president of The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. Also, he is closely interested in Transcontinental Air Transport, which uses Santa Fe rail service for part of its route and competes with the Santa Fe for more. Also, he is director of the Railway Express Agency, Inc., for whose business both the rail and his air systems compete...