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Chico Marx runs an ice cream wagon at a racetrack. When he spies Groucho placing a bet on Sun-Up, he intercedes, sells the visitor a tip. When Groucho fails to understand the tip. Chico produces a code book from the ice cream wagon, sells Groucho the code book. When Groucho fails to understand the code book, Chico sells him a master code book. By the time the transaction ends, Groucho has a whole library of code books. Chico has Groucho's money, which he bets on Sun...
DANCE OF FIRE-Lola Ridge- Smith & Haas ($2). Latest collection of mystical and testimonial poems by the author of Sun-Up and Firehead. Those whose hackles rise at the sight of pure poetry need have no fear of reading these while shaving...
Last autumn her talent for mimicry and histrionics was displayed before an admiring hometown audience, in the amateur theatre of the Palo Alto Community Players. Asked to take the part of the Widow Cagle in Lula Vollmers play of southern mountaineer white trash, Sun-Up (see front cover), Mrs. Norris was worried because the role required a series of hearty pulls on a corncob pipe. She had never smoked in her life, thought herself at 54 too old to begin. But her stage director was adamant. So, experimenting first with cubebs, later with cubeb tobacco stuffed into the bowl...
...Water. Lucille La Verne has been identified so long with an old hag in Sun-Up that it was hard to believe in her latest characterization, that of a decayed but kind-hearted actress named Duckie. This actress, once highly popular behind footlights, has become, through the re versals of circumstance, a janitress. But she continues doing many good turns every day, for which the recipients repay her badly...
...Sun-Up. You may remember this Southern play by Lula Vollmer, which told so sternly and so well certain truths about the mountain people. In the picture it still has its tale to tell, plus a love story to thin it out to seven reels. The story is one of war; how feud war faded before the greater war which took the mountaineers to Germany, which they regarded as just beyond Asheville. The dominant figure is the old mountain mother who, between puffs at her corncob pipe, attains in her ignorance to some fundamental facts in life. Lucille La Verne...