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Union Depot (Warner). Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is an alert hobo who, after stealing a hat and coat from a men's washroom, reconnoitres in the station until he has a good suit of clothes, a roll of bills and a girl. His tramp companion picks up a parcel check which Fairbanks cashes for a violin case full of counterfeit money. Detectives looking for the counterfeiter find Fairbanks, when he is helping his girl to rid herself of a perverse admirer who wears dark glasses and a crippled foot. Eventually Fairbanks clears himself, but not until the counterfeiter, trying to retrieve...
Graduate students who "shop" around for scholarships and fellowships in various schools and colleges and seek the "highest bidder" seem to have become somewhat prevalent within the last few years. Such men can be compared to the "tramp athlete" who carries his wares to the highest collegiate market...
Honolulu, paradisaic melting pot of East & West, was tense with trouble last week. Yellow men's lust for white women had broken bounds. Short sharp disorders brought the tramp of soldiery through the streets. A tremor of apprehension ran through Hawaii's motley population- coolies from China, great Russians from Siberia, little Japanese crowded off their homeland, Portuguese, Porto Ricans, Koreans, Filipinos, sugar and pineapple workers...
...Woman (Paramount) was apparently produced on the assumption that a picture containing both Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper needs nothing else. As a result of this sad and typical mistake, the story is a tedious travelog in which Cooper, as the captain of a tramp steamer, and Miss Colbert, as nurse to a foundling whom the captain has picked up in a dory, voyage together from Central America to Manhattan. At the end of the voyage they are engaged. The foundling, an inarticulate urchin, gives a more sure-fire performance than either Cooper or Colbert. By crawling out on deck...
...Burlesque Show. Like the commedia before the days of the great Debureau, Burlesque is vulgar entertainment catering to the masses, often frankly obscene. Like the commedia, Burlesque is based on "bits" that have been handed down from one troupe to the next for generations. The Jew and the tramp comedians wear costumes that have become as standardized, as remote from ordinary life as the costumes of Harlequin the beggar and Pierrot the peasant. Finally the Burlesque Show gave birth to the richer, more respectable Revue, just as the commedia became the sentimental fantasy of the 19th Century. It is high...