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...Loew's State this week is a well rounded program featuring a satirical romance of Clarence Buddington Kelland called "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," with an S.S. Van Dine thriller filling out the bill. In the first, a gem of pure wit in Kelland's best Satevepost style, Mr. Deeds is a country boy from Vermont whose uncle's death leaves him a fortune of twenty millions, complete with town house and a regiment of vassals from a major-domo to a pair of plug-ugly bodyguards. With a bank account that "will do in a pinch," he locks...
Eddie Cantor's newest vehicle is a variegated whirlwind of good music, original dance arrangements, and exciting comedy plot. Taken from Clarence Buddington Kelland's Satevepost story "Dreamland," "Strike Me Pink" shows the Timid Soul, Mr. Pink (Cantor, of course) in his adventures fighting Crime in an Amusement park...
...Lucky, as usual, was the Saturday Evening Post, with a series of articles about Huey Long already appearing (Prelude to a Heterocrat: The Evolution of Huey Long, by Hermann B. Deutsch). Observers recalled how the Satevepost, which goes to press five weeks in advance of publication, had an article on the Harding Administration the week that President died in San Francisco...
Young Author Flandrau nevertheless found conforming difficult. Editors lured him with attractive offers. The best of Author Flandrau's anecdotes deal with Satevepost's George Horace Lorimer, "the most insidiously seductive Lorelei of them all ... perched on a rock known as the Curtis Publishing Company overlooking the human tide that ebbs and flows along Independence Square in Philadelphia." Author Flandrau had written pure, sexless, nonalcoholic short stories, a good clean serial called The Diary of a Freshman, when Editor Lorimer wanted him to write the diary of a professor. Author Flandrau fled to Europe. The editor, using "diplomatic...
...nation-wide promotion of its toilet paper, Seminole has been conducting a contest with 30 Hupmobiles as grand prizes. At least one-half of each full-page Seminole advertisement in publications like the American Weekly and Satevepost was given over to blazing publicity for Hupp...