Word: island
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Isle of Lost Ships (First National). This is the dialog adaptation of a six-year-old picture built around the legend that there is an island in the Sargasso Sea composed of wrecked hulls. Action gets going around three survivors of the latest wreck?a girl, a man convicted of murder, a comedy detective. Occasionally effective camera work fails to make up for stolid sequences of dialog explaining the locale, or for the pathetic struggle between the hero and the scav- engers who live on the lost ships. Silliest shot: the super-scavenger being ceremoniously married to the unconscious body...
With Nova Scotia gone Wet, Ontario confirmed in wetness, the little province of Prince Edward Island with a population less than Yonkers, N. Y., is the only part of Canada which has not cast off prohibition. U. S. Wets could not forbear to gloat last week. Cried President Henry H. Curran of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
...Only Finland, Prince Edward Island and the United States are left groping in the dark of attempted prohibition of the use of God's gifts...
...Will the United States be the next to jettison this unfortunate fancy? Will it be Prince Edward Island, or will it be Finland...
...10?Opening of Hawaiian Airways, Ltd., new inter-island air service...