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Saratoga (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), written by Anita Loos & Robert Hopkins, is possibly Jean Harlow's best picture as well as her last. Glib, forthright, knowing and adroit, released last week to coincide with the opening of the 1937 season at New York's old spa, it investigates the lighter side of the serious sport of horse racing with as much good sense as good humor...
...arrival at Hot Springs he received a warm letter of welcome from Arkansas' Governor Bailey and letters from Little Rock's acting Mayor and Chamber of Commerce president, welcoming him to their city for a speech he was scheduled to make there after his stay at the spa. The facts that Chicago's Mitchell is the first Negro Democrat to sit in Congress and a New Dealer besides had all to do> with these receptions...
...Hartford, Conn. Under the guidance of William Blake, who has been with the Orphanage for 38 years, Band No. 2 had been at Saratoga, N. Y. where the horseracing season opened early this month (TIME, Aug. 12). Day & night at the race track, at baseball games and on the spa's Broadway the hard-working youngsters played spirituals, sweet ballads and hot arrangements of tunes like Dinah and Sweet Sue on their rusty cornets, trombones, French horns, drums. Bystanders were especially taken with Band No. 2's impish 12-year-old leader who juggled his baton, shimmied vigorously...
Founded in the gaudy 1890's, American Hide & Leather today has only two tanneries, one in Lowell, Mass., the other in Ballston Spa, N. Y. No dividends have ever been paid on its common stock. Arrears on $10,000,000 of preferred stock now stand at $21,000,000 or $214.25 per share, highest arrearage of any preferred issue on the New York Stock Exchange...
...feature of the Saratoga season this year, like the pretentious Spa, ceremoniously opened last fortnight, are jinrikishas, pulled by impecunious Rutgers and Dartmouth students (TIME...