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/LIDE KELLY SLIDE
C[ The most realistic young love ever filmed.
Has everybody here seen Kelly? If not, why not? Kelly must not be missed. If you can give any good reason for non-attendance, get in touch with me. I have a standing date with Kelly, and as a special favor you may come along. Peanuts, Pop, Hot Dogs!
If you are a baseball fan in the first place, you'll like "Slide, Kelly, Slide". If you aren't, Bill Haines and his team will make you one. I never was so excited over the National Game myself, but now — just try to keep me away. Here I always thought baseball couldn't be as exciting as football or prize-fighting or Marines — especially on the screen. I was wrong. Baseball is a riot. Edward Sedgwick, director, A. P. Younger, author, and William Haines, star, must be fans themselves. They couldn't have done such a good job if home-runs left them cold. There are real ball games and real ball players in the picture. It glorifies the Game in general, the Yanks in particular. It's about Jim Kelly, the freshest bush' leaguer who ever hurled 'em over the pan. He twirled himself into the big league, and "Slide, Kelly, Slide" became the slogan of the fans. But success went to Jim's head; he thought he owned baseball; he stooped sliding
and slipped. Of course — it's a part that's made to order for William Haines. And how he plays it. His teamwork with Junior Coghlan, the most lovable movie kid since Jackie Coogan, is great trouping. You'll sniff at some of those scenes. Why do they call that marvellous youngster Junior, anyway? He deserves a full-sized name. He plays Kelly's adoring protegee whose childish faith helps to make a man of the wise guy . Hokum? But it's the way it's done! Maybe you'd like to hear about Bill's scene with Sally O'Neil. It's the porch-swing scene, probably the most realistic young-love ever filmed. No Barrymore-Costello idyll, you understand; but a love scene just the same. Bill is up to his old tricks; he meets up with Dorothy Sebastian, whose smile, brief, but flashing, is one of the things you'll remember about "Slide, Kelly, Slide".
Here's another of the features that seems to have been made with an eye to luring mere males to the movies. It's filled with regular guys, real ball-games, masculine psychology, and things like that. A he-picture, all right. But don't let's worry, girls. As long as they give us William Haines, what do we care about fashion shows, anyway.
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