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Less pretentious than most of the publicity about it, considerably less inspired than Author Damon Runyon's perfect name for its typical hero, the picture paves its lowly way with the good intentions of decent little people. Irony is implicit in the situation that brings two of them face to face with the President (played by Lewis Stone in his most complacent Judge Hardy manner...
...reformer. I am merely a medical practitioner in a college town of 4,500. It is of no special concern to me whether it be New York or Padooka-one fact is very obvious all about us-we as a nation are becoming extremely calloused, and as Damon Runyon so aptly put it in his column a few days ago, extremely sinful...
...just released, well calculated to ring the bell again. Sonja Henie has been called variously Queen of the Ice, Pavlova on Skates and the Nasturtium of the North. But no captioner has hit her off quite so neatly as did Broadway's knowing old verbal free skater, Damon Runyon. Sonja Henie, says admiring Mr. Runyon, is just a gee-whizzer...
Visitors to San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair last week: Artist Rockwell Kent, Author Damon Runyon, Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde. Said she: "I'm not sure I want to look at the World of Tomorrow, considering some phases of the world of today." Pre-visitor to the New York World's Fair: Cinemactor George Arliss...
...telephones, executing Russian dances in cowboy costumes, worrying, ringing bells, riding horseback forward and backward, crawling on all fours and swinging from the limbs of trees. Naturally, in a picture which contains the Ritzes, there is very little room left for a story. In Straight, Place and Show, Damon Runyon's and Irving Caesar's fairly conventional fable about a young man (Richard Arlen), a young girl (Phyllis Brooks) and an eccentric race horse survives principally as the excuse for two songs by Ethel Merman and a steeplechase climax which, faintly reminiscent of The Hottentot...