THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Screen Reflections
Four stars means extraordinary; three stars very
good; two stars good; one star just another picture;
no stars keep away from it.
AT THE MICHIGAN
"THE DEVIL IS DRIVING"
* *VERY BREATH-TAKING;
MOUTHS WATER AT WYNNE GIBSON
Gabby ................Edmund Lowe
Silver ...................Wynne Gibson
Pete .................... James Gleason
Nancy ................... Lois Wilson
Buddy..................Dickie Moore
Jenkins .................Alan. Dinehart
For a nice nerve-racking couple of hours, punc-
tuated with fun by Gabby (Edmund Lowe),
breath-taking shots of Silver (Wynne Gibson).
and wistful action by Buidy (unspoiled actor
Dickie Moore), we earnestly recommend "The
Devil is Driving."
To us at least, this is a new angle on racket
movies. It is the story of the proprietors of a big
metropolitan garage who are running a car-steal-
ing business on the side. Almost the first shot is
of a big touring car, engine roaring and tires
screaming rushing up the garage ramps to the
paint-shop for alteration before the police appre-
hend the thieves who will later sell it.
James Gleason is the competent, sarcastic fore-
man of the garage who is in on the racket be-
cause he needs money and who is killed in an
awesome way before the picture is half over. Ed-
mund Lowe is his William-Haines-like mechanic
and right hand man who, in the end, wins beau-
teous Wynne Gibson. Lois Wilson as Nancy, the
foreman's wife, and Dickie Moore (borrowed from
"Our Gang" for this picture) as Buddy, his son,
are not essential to the story but contribute ex-
cellent background.
All the atmosphere shots inside the garage are
clever, as are individual shots of men at work and
of a truck with a hidden bar. Nerve-racking
scenes: various people driving about slippery
streets at breakneck paces; Gleason's car careen-
ing improbably down the ramps on its last trip;
scenes of two of the crooks' cars just before they
meet head-on and hurtle down 20 stories through
an air shaft.
Typical good dialogue and acting: Gabby get-
ting facts about the foreman's murder from a
moronic roustabout. Silly shot: Dickie shooting a
lead soldier with a pop-gun to illustrate what will
happen to the murderer of his father. Typical
unexpected humorous shot: Gabby getting the
razzberry at his wedding.
Added: Paramount News; a college comedy,
"Keyhole Katy," screamingly funny because two
sororities and an old woman are involved in all
sorts of activities usually partaken of only by men
(and incidentally losing a lot of clothes); a car-
toon, "A Great Big Bunch of You," very musical
and with clever caricatures by Chevalier, the
Lucky Strike orchestra, Ted Lewis, Walter Win-
chell, the Boswell Sisters. The stage feature is
Chickola the Hypnotist, an entertaining charla-
tan who makes the common mistake of "playing
down" to a college audience and about whom
it is well to be skeptical. He will be here both
afternoon and evening through Saturday.
-W. S. W.
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dents are looking for
rooms for next senes-
ter. But finding a good
room is not their only
worry, for exams are
"just around the cor-
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By Karl Seiffert
About 200 idlers invaded the Illinois state cap-
itol the other day and demanded; that the gover-
nor give them donations of public funds, says the
Chicago Tribune. It looks as though they'll have
to pay the police after all, if only to keep them
out of the governor's office.
The only ray of hope penetrating to the Long-
suffering Senate is the possibility of making use
of the popular laundry soap advertised by the
slogan, "Keeps them from running."
INSULL'S TAX
REFUND FOUND
SHY OF MILLION
-Headline
That's something you could never say about
Sam.
A four-months-old baby was found in a mud
puddle in Chicago. Police are working on the
theory that someone did the child dirt.
A news article declares that there are 1,800,000
fewer automobiles in the United States today
than there were a year ago, due to obsolescence.
Gosh-have that many blown up since last year?
EXPECTS AUTO
BUYING W A V E
-Headline
About 10 million peoplen early drowned in
the last one.
Microphones used in making talking pictures
pick up and register sounds the human ear cannot
detect, says a writer, apparently referring to the
applause that always accompanies movies of
Harry Lauder's vaudeville act.
Statisticians have just prepared a table showing
how American consumers spent their money in
1929. What they really need for that is an install-
ment plan bargain counter.
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WOMEN AS FRAUD
CASE WITNESSES
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