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Every Night at Eight (Paramount) is the cinema's first effort to dramatize the current radio craze for "amateur hours." It concerns the efforts of three ambitious factory girls (Patsy Kelly, Alice Faye and Frances Langford) who, itching to squeak through microphones, form a partnership with an equally ambitious leader (George Raft) of a CWA band, become famed as the Swanee Sisters...
...deaf person can watch the fluctuations of his voice indicated by the pointer of the instrument which registers the impulses immediately. Frequencies from zero to 16,000 cycles per second can be recorded, while the range of the human ear is from 20 cycles up to a high squeak of about 16,000 cycles per second...
Space forbids a detailed description of the Vagabond's efforts in tracking down this grotesque perversion, but suffice it to say he has always noticed that the chairs in Widener fall into two distinct groups: those that squeak, and those that don't. Everyone knows that. Well, yesterday morning the Vagabond was lolling in one of the new non-squeakers at table 21, when he noticed something about the arrangement of the chairs that made his eyes dilate with horror. All the non-squeakers in the room were concentrated in the immediate neighborhood of the central information desk...
Promptly at 7 o'clock one evening last week a uniformed Boy Scout, whose job it was to strike a brass ship's bell six times, stupidly struck it seven times. A Girl Scout blew a loud squeak on a gold-plated whistle and the 1935 National Motor Boat Show was officially open in Manhattan...
...when End Keith Topping fell on the ball after a blocked punt at California's 24-yd. line. Stanford's Captain Robert Hamilton took the ball across. A field goal from the 15-yd. line early in the last quarter gave Stanford the points it needed to squeak through 9-to-7, when California staged a last-minute drive to a touchdown...