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...have only Mr. Ruben's word for it that "Ace of Aces" is not plagiarism, but anyone who remembers "Wings," "The Sky Hawk" and other pictures of their ilk, will begin to question the gentleman's veracity. One might even believe that "Ace of Aces" was produced when air-warfare extravaganzas--were in vogue, and that Radio Pictures hesitated to inflict it on audiences until more successful brethren had been forgotten. Engines roar, sputter, machine guns bark, and planes go down in flames, but the only redeeming feature is Richard Dix. Even worshippers of the red corpuscles however, might...
Last week indigent Actor Packard was indicted along with Solomon Sugarman (disbarred attorney), George Gopin (once convicted of impersonating a Prohibition agent). Paul Rosen, Ruben Hirsch, Irving Cohen et al. No indictment was returned against Maxwell H. Brown. He had never existed. His name had been signed to letters by an 18-year-old office...
...Australian writer-adventurer Alan Villiers with a syndicate, bought her, from a Hamburg break-up yard. A onetime German nitrate trader, she was about to become razor blades and sardine cans. A fellow-buyer was the man Villiers calls "the best sailor in the world": Finnish Captain Ruben de Cloux, 48, 35 years in sail, 18 years in the Cape Horn traffic. Captain de Cloux would like to be a sailor on the moon because the moon is smaller than the Earth to sail around. Outward bound for Australia after the 1929 grain race, he was sailing the barque Herzogin...
With a lively story and a few well-directed scenes in which Dorothy Jordan blubbers in affecting treble. Roadhouse Murder is passable melodrama. Most obvious of its flaws would have been corrected had Director J. Walter Ruben persuaded Eric Linden to deliver a few of his lines without a pathetic quaver...
...East from Fox on a 26-year basis, a few from Paramount. Last week they completed a deal by which they will manage the 550 theatres of the Wesco group. Chief assistant to Spyros Skouras will be Lester J. Ludwig, formerly in charge of the Finkelstein and Ruben theatres for Paramount-Publix. Only Fox Theatres still being operated by the Fox Company are some "de luxe" houses and the Poli chain in New England. Stock-holders heard with alarm that famed Roxy Theatre must drop its name because Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel has gone to Radio City...