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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serves for 34 years in the minor offices of a city government is lucky when he dies if he receives a stick of type in a local newspaper. But when Michael J. Pendergast, the peak of whose official career was to be City Clerk of Kansas City, Mo., died last week he re- ceived sticks of type across the continent and many politicians said, "Poor Mike...
...serves as a skeleton for this lively and beautiful comedy is taken from the admirable inventions of the late great Tobias George Smollett (1721-71) in his novel The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. Likewise the strange eloquence of the Commodore who prefaces his simplest statements with "Hear the news," whose expression of habitual astonishment is "d'you say?" and who addresses his nephew, with deep affection, as a "human mistake...
...perfect landing.* The material is still open for treatment as nothing much is done with it in this picture. Instead of using what is really known about Richthofen: his innate love of the chase, his early cavalry training, his duel with the English ace, Major Lanoe G. Hawker, whose plane he brought down after a fierce, magnificent combat, the producers waste three-quarters of the film telling a poppycock love story about one of his friends. Most of the photography is poor. One of the rare good shots: newsreel of the actual crowd waiting in Berlin streets to see Richthofen...
...couple are buffeted about by the vicissitudes of their liaison, chiefly consisting of the lawyer's bumptious children, they often run afoul of the lawyer's drinking crony (Charles Ruggles). Anyone who has ever laughed at drolleries induced by the decanter will be amused by this gentleman whose dialog is so real that it suggests the use of a dictaphone. Best shot: Claudette Colbert being told by her lover that he contemplates deserting her. Our Modern Maidens (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The romantic flush of Michael Aden, the decorative gush of a Zuloaga gone mad, surround the frolics...
Last week a carnival of full-blown pink blossoms danced on the prosaic financial pages of daily newspapers. The item was a small one in the daily grist of modernism, one more merger in a merging world. It was announced that Carnation Milk Products Co., whose head office is at Oconomowoc, Wis., whose common shares (435,440 of $25 par) sell at about $48 on the New York Curb, had arranged to acquire Albers Bros. Milling Co. of Oregon. Two and one-half shares of Carnation common stock were offered for each share of Albers preferred, two shares of Carnation...