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...Madge Evans tried a come-back with Richard Barthelmess in Classmates. When it failed, she got William A. Brady to help her get stage parts. She was playing in George Kelly's Philip Goes Forth when MGM used her as background in a screen test for another actor in the cast. The test came out so well she got a contract. After her teeth had been straightened, her hair dyed and bobbed, she attained the distinction of being the only child actor to succeed in cinema as an adult...
Midnight Alibi (First National). Short stories by Damon Runyon generally mix good-hearted guttersnipes with nice old ladies (Lady For a Day) or babies (Little Miss Marker). The contrast makes good cinema fare. Midnight Alibi deals with a gangster named Lance (Richard Barthelmess), a rival gangster named Angie, Angie's sister (Ann Dvorak) with whom Lance is in love, and an old lady (Helen Lowell). The old lady lives in a brownstone house opposite Angie's night club. When Lance, running away from Angie's gunman, comes through her back door, she takes an interest...
...been said that casting Richard Barthelmess as the Indian chief justifies the name of the Indian chief justifies the name of this movie without considering the plot. The film, although founded upon a real issue in the problems of the administration of the Indian Reservations, is worked into the usual melodramatic show with whizzing motorcycles, howling savages, and pistol shots fired at close range...
...Richard Barthelmess...
Score: 110th Company 6, Eliot 0. Touchdown--Barthelmess...