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...book by Bud G. De Sylva & Laurence Schwab; music by Nacio Herb Brown, Richard Whiting. Vincent Youmans; Laurence Schwab, producer) is fast, noisy, funny. It reverts to the pre-Depression type of musicomedy, makes no pretense of smartness but loses no entertainment value by its atavism. Buried in a torrent of gags, girls and Jew blues is a plot: a Harvardman, trying to cash in on his Hasty Pudding Club theatrical experience, woos and wins a lowly dancer whose fortune two shoe-string impresarios try to promote. No Harvardman was ever more blond and decorous than Jack Whiting (America...
Singer Richman has never had such an antiphonal background for his song "I Love A Parade." Miss Damita and her torrent of red hair appears even more charming than she was in Sons o' Guns. But black-banged Eleanor Powell, possibly the best lady tap-dancer in the business, gives her a race for being the most attractive female in the cast. Funnyman Lahr's noisy gullet has seldom been put to wider use.. He is successively a slightly bewildered master of a trained dog act ("to train dogs takes a lot of time, patience-and dogs...
...rider, out of breath and speechless at the austerity of the new circumstances was safely tethered. The corporation replaced its hats and moved on, definitely jovial now, and disappeared into University Hall. The wind struck at the Vagabond again, and he walked out of hearing of the Gaelic torrent being applied to the limp lawbreaker...
Board chairman of New York Trust, Banker Buckner is an old hand at cooperative banking. He headed the Clearing House Committee when its members promptly offered to lend up to 50% on deposits tied up in the defunct Bank of United States. When the torrent of failures threatened to engulf a large part of the banking system last autumn, he was picked for president of National Credit Corp., which buttressed frozen institutions until organization of the R. F. C. Last week National Credit Corp. retired another $19,000,000 of its outstanding notes, bringing the total repaid to subscribing banks...
...While a torrent of gold poured in through his magazines, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden could afford to ignore the rivulets which trickled out through his unprofitable Manhattan tabloid Evening Graphic. But Macfadden Publications Inc.. which earned $1,839,000 in 1928, earned only $1,395,000 in 1930.* Few months ago Publisher Macfadden, for the first time, turned his personal attention to the Graphic, which has never made money since he started...