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...qualities, those of a puzzle rather than a nightmare, are therefore attributable to a skillful adaptation by Niven Busch of Mary Roberts Rinehart's story. Comic relief in mystery stories is so easy to do that it is seldom done as satisfactorily as when a policeman herein finds fault with a nosey reporter. "I'm the Morning Eagle," says the reporter. "Go feather your nest," the policeman says, and throws him off the porch. Joan Blondell's round eyes give her, the astonished appearance proper to a female detective. George Brent, an actor currently being groomed...
...forces with M. Blum, knowing that on other issues the Socialists will not support him, that to keep his Cabinet from being defeated he must curry favor with the Right. On a quick dash up to Paris last week Premier Herriot appeared worried and irresolute, said that the "chief fault" of the President's proposal is that it "attributes certain effectives to nations A, B and C, but what would happen if A and B should join against C? . . . I have read and reread President Hoover's message and I shall reread it many times again...
...Good work to do. Granting U. S. Presi dent Wilson's observation, "There is no more priggish business in the world than the development of one's character," the Abbe still holds with Thomas a Kempis: "We should soon be perfect if we would only conquer one fault every year." Presi dent Wilson, though he did not know it, was talking of annexing imaginary virtues, the monk was talking of disannexing real faults. This is the prelude to the Good Life which, says the good Abbe, is heavenly. A true account and touchstone of that heavenly state...
...would be induced to charge that the book was little more than an excuse to string together, with as much continuity as possible, numerous interesting stories. But Lawes reveals himself the master of a racy, journalistic style, which admits gracefully the predominance of illustration by anecdote. The one fault of the book is small but glaring; the ghoulishly sensational description of an electrocution, inserted as a prologue, is neither necessary nor illuminating. One prefers to believe that it can be blamed on the publishers. Aside from this feature, the book is entertaining and gripping throughout. No reader will seriously question...
...tales handed in at the Fox office this last twelvemonth. Miss Landi tramps along through a divorce court, a murder court, and out to the glaring sunlight of a tennis court where she serves very badly, and back again into prison to see her husband serve for his double fault. It is a grotesque slow-moving business made possible by the wrinkling nose of Miss Landi and the early murder of Mr. Gilbert Roland. It all comes out for the best in the end when Neil Hamilton as the husband gives up his ways as a high flyer and makes...