Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 3, 1933

Sweepings (RKO). Daniel Pardway (Lionel Barrymore) arrived in Chicago soon after Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lamp. He started a shop in the Loop, hired as general manager a smart Jew (Gregory Ratoff) who climbed across the sock counter out of the crowd at a sale. The shop grew into a huge department store called the Bazaar. Daniel Pardway's wife (Nan Sunderland) died before she had time to share Daniel's greatest disappointment: his children. The oldest. Gene, grew up to be a loose-life; the second son was a Tom Thumb esthete;...

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