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...doing so in 1923 when its earnings reached the giddy peak of $31.84 a share, nor in 1927 when its profits on 1,581 U. S. and Canadian stores averaged $16,805 per store. But when profits per store began to drop in 1928 and Depression accentuated the skid, Woolworth contemplated changes. By 1932 when profits per store were down to $8,093, Woolworth's moved towards higher prices to compete with rival chains which offered a line of merchandise broader in price and quality. This year with profits per store down to $9,580 (1936),* it made another...
...skilful, engaging music. Top song and top production number: Too Marvelous for Words. Swing High, Swing Low (Paramount) reveals the effects of outrageous fortune's slings and arrows upon the soul of a sensitive hot-trumpet player. Mustered out of the U. S. Army in Panama, Skid Johnson (Fred MacMurray) is not much better than a guttersnipe when he meets Maggie King (Carole Lombard), a stranded dancer working as a manicurist. Things begin to improve when he and Maggie team in an act, celebrate its sensational success by marriage, improve even further when a Broadway scout (Charles Arnt) offers...
...comedy lines almost up to the standard of the ones she had in My Man Godfrey; and reminding cinemaddicts that Fred MacMurray, who can really play a trombone, got his start in cinema after a five-year career as a member of the California Collegians. Most maudlin shot: Skid's response to the information that Maggie is going to leave him-tooting Mendelssohn's Wedding March discordantly in a hotel corridor...
...Volkswagen or "Folksy Automobile." Last week Der Führer opened the 11h annual Berlin Auto Show with a spectacular review of 10,000 Nazis. Through cleared Berlin streets the greatest German racing drivers roared with flame-belching exhausts and brakes screaming as they took street corners in breakneck "skid-turns...
...spent an hilarious Saturday night. Of Amos, the spokesman for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reported : "He was probably the drunkest duck I ever saw. He would stand up on the bar and quaff a foaming beaker and then go bouncing . . . into a ground loop, skid off the bar, and tailspin to the floor." Protested Owner Green: "I'm training this little duck for a movie career. He's as smart as they come, but a little bit shy. So I take him along with me to let him mix and get used...