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Fools in the Dark. Every now and then some producer reaches the absolute end of his dramatic rope and decides to make a melodrama on the theory that old things are best. Accordingly, he stirs up daggers, skeletons, an avalanche, death traps, mystery yachts, a Hindu villain, an airplane rescue. In the present instance, a death ray was included to give that natty modern touch. No matter how often you have been to the cinemas, the incoherent multitude of these manufactured thrills serves a sure purpose. There is an inevitable, if factitious, reaction. Matt Moore and Patsy Ruth Miller assist...
...another time Mr. Powys had accused an African "Man of God" of stealing goats and had been heartily cursed in return. That night, as he lay in the dark, he heard a ghastly laugh, he writes, "long and loud, whining and wailing up from the forest, up from the gully, so I judged. I tried to reassure myself. Surely it was the howl of a hyena feasting on the remains of the dead buck? But even as my mind was suggesting this, my subconscious self knew that it lied. That criminal human outcry, it could issue from no animal throat...
...Bayonne, N. J., John Lewko, 2, was thirsty in the night, arose, went to the sink in the dark, poured himself a drink from a kerosene can there, emptied it at a gulp, was carried screaming to the hospital in his mother's arms, died...
Malcolm Stevenson?a substitute on the 1914 "Big Four." A smallish man, short and dark, he is not spectacular in a melee. His play is clever, steady defense at No. 3, where he pairs splendidly with Milburn and does the backing up during Milburn's tearing charges. His handicap, 9 goals, is but one less than Hitchcock's and Milburn...
John William Davis: "Accompanied by Frank L. Polk and my secretary, I strode out onto the Tarrantine Country Club golf links at Dark Harbor, Me. We drove off. It was growing dusk when we reached the ninth hole, forcing us to stop, but I had played the best game of my life-'out' in 44. I was reported as saying that, could we have played the last nine, I would have finished with...