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...picture for real people. The heroine is a goodie-goodie chorus girl, patterned after the roles Miss Keeler takes in Warner Brothers musicals. A silent gangster (Paul Kelly) with a heart of gold befriends her, falls in love with her, loses her bravely to a suave crooner (Russ Columbo). The plot's conventionality is really an advantage because it is unobtrusive framework for pleasant songs by Columbo, Cummings and Frances Williams, dances by the chorus of Tex Kaley's night club. Good shot: A frantically earnest dance director (Gregory Ratoff) urging his protegees to behave like elves...
Frank Rocci Paul Kelly Joan Constance Cummings Texas Kaley Texas Guinan Clark Brian Russ Columbo Eddie Foy, Jr. Eddie Foy, Jr. Max Gregory Rathoff Frances Williams Frances Williams...
...left another five miles in her for Russ," said Pilot Jimmy Doolittle last year at the National Air Races just after making a world's landplane record of 294 m.p.h. "Her" referred to the plane, a fat little bumblebee known as Gee Bee 11. "Russ" was famed Pilot Russell Boardman...
...when the 1933 National Air Races were run off at Los Angeles last week "Russ" Boardman and his Gee Bee 11 were not there to make that extra 5 m.p.h. Instead, his plane was a pile of wreckage in Indianapolis and his dead body was being flown back to his Hartford home. Without him, the fastest time flown at Los Angeles was 280 m.p.h.-first time in National Air Race history that one year's speed record was not bettered the next...
...Marta, Pauline and Russ move about on their gentle junkets they reminisce constantly, sometimes aloud but more often, more fully, to themselves. Gradually tortuously, the anxious reader discovers their histories. All have come from poor beginnings to comparative success. All of them have been unhappily married. All of them are enough wiser than they were to be able to philosophize about it. And at the end Marta goes back to her comic strip, Russ to his job and the doctor's sentence hanging over him, Pauline to the thought of her dead children and the possibility of once again...