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...Hide-Out (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Four years ago, gangsters in the cinema were wicked and incorrigible. They beat their women, shot policemen, smuggled rum and ended their careers at the end of a rope or in the gutter. Due to the combined efforts of the Hays organization and Damon Runyon, whose stories have set a new screen fashion, this is no longer true. Lately cinema racketeers have been gentlemen, masquerading sheepishly in wolves' clothes. In Lady for a Day, Little Miss Marker and Midnight Alibi, the heroes were mollycoddle outlaws whose better natures were aroused by old ladies...
Although it lacks the finesse of Damon Runyon's fables on the same theme, and although Robert Montgomery makes no effort to control his cuteness, Hide-Out is a likable little picture, full of sweetness, sincerity and scenes which should delight the Legion of Decency. Cleanest shot : Robert Montgomery and Maureen O'Sullivan milking a cow whose udder is offscreen...
...were hopefully watching. But wise-acres long ago agreed that neither was the equal of the 17-year-old who last week was sunning himself on the Riddle farm near Lexington, Ky., while Paramount angled for his services in a racehorse film based on a story by Sportswriter Damon Runyon...
Midnight Alibi (First National). Short stories by Damon Runyon generally mix good-hearted guttersnipes with nice old ladies (Lady For a Day) or babies (Little Miss Marker). The contrast makes good cinema fare. Midnight Alibi deals with a gangster named Lance (Richard Barthelmess), a rival gangster named Angie, Angie's sister (Ann Dvorak) with whom Lance is in love, and an old lady (Helen Lowell). The old lady lives in a brownstone house opposite Angie's night club. When Lance, running away from Angie's gunman, comes through her back door, she takes an interest...
...Baer's small Hearst column contains wisecracks like "ears like handles on a loving cup" which are the opposite of slang. Ring Lardner, who died a week after Sime Silverman, was usually careful to avoid inventions of his own, stuck close to the jargon of baseball. Columnist Damon Runyon mixes authentic underworld talk with invented freaks. Gelett Burgess' The Goops contributed a less valuable word than Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. George Ade's Fables in Slang were funnier than real slang. Gene Buck, who, Mr. Funk said last week, had once told him he "was responsible...