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...mansion in Westchester County, N. Y., whose owner has been mysteriously slain and whose housekeeper creeps about presaging dire events. In addition to its standard equipment of revolvers, bowie knives and falling chandeliers, Spook House also contains one funny Irish policeman, one extremely competent and clever gunman, one beauteous female operative of the Department of Justice...
Situated 20 minutes from Oakland, 35 minutes from the Metropolitan pleasures of San Francisco across the bay, Berkeley's thousands have a very good time. The young men are addicted to wearing comfortable corduroys, driving ornamented motors, rigadooning with California's belles (traditionally beauteous) who compose one-half of the student body...
...with Hero Harold Stromberg when suddenly comes the report of a revolver. Next scene occurs in the fatal room itself with Mr. Stromberg?acted by cinema villain Roy D'Arcy (The Merry Widow) ?lying near death from a gunshot wound. Grouped about him are his henchmen and his beauteous blonde girl-friend Babette Marshall, whose part is taken by the suntanned companion of the late Gambler Rothstein, Inez Norton, a stroke of showmanship calculated to add to the play's veracity. Mr. Stromberg expires after exhorting his minions to "treat her square, treat her square...
...little to choose. Both were wealthy; neither was brilliant. Both were Republican regulars in the Senate; neither had distinguished himself there for knowledge of foreign affairs. Behind the two appointments politics was equally apparent. For his bright post in Paris, Ambassador Edge had the aid of a young and beauteous wife. But Mrs. Sackett, a dignified and conservative matron of her husband's years, was sure to appeal no less strongly to the sober Teutonic temperament...
Before going off to War, Major Hurley asked the beauteous and accomplished Ruth Wilson to marry him. She sent him to her father, Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, commander of the Atlantic fleet, then lying in the Hudson River. Thither the love-struck Major hastened. He says life's greatest thrill came when the Admiral's barge took him off to the flagship where he was ceremoniously piped over the rail. Formally, as one U. S. officer to another, he presented his compliments to the Admiral, requested his daughter's hand in marriage. After the War they...