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...rapid shifting of suspicion that Subway Express had a successful Broadway run. It was a much better play than it is a picture, principally because the single setting, which gave the play its concentration, cheats the camera of its most vital effect, the ability to move in a flash of a second over all space and time...
...Bellamy Trial. As a mystery story, this courtroom melodrama was a neat sifting and juggling of suspicious testimony, adequately convincing. As a play concocted by Author Frances Noyes Hart and Playwright Frank E. Carstarphen it is labored, lacking any of the dramatic flash which is found in the trial scene of The Silent Witness, its current cousin on Broadway...
...President Bacigalupi is 48, a lean, lively gentleman whose teeth flash in frequent smiles, whose jet hair and dark eyes proclaim his nationality. Like Giannini he was raised in California. He went to high school in Santa Clara County, wanted to be a druggist. But the parish priest urged him to go to Santa Clara College. For a while he thought of being an actor, then went to Hastings College of the Law (San Francisco) and was given his degree in 1907. Looking for work, he met Amadeo Peter Giannini who offered him a room, rent-free, if he would...
Taxi-Ads. In Manhattan last fortnight Adman John H. Livingston Jr. announced that 1,000 taxicabs will soon be equipped with a device to flash a quick-changing series of 22 floodlighted advertising cards before the passenger...
...sister, Detective Delgado noticed (and it was odd that President Machado had not noticed the ominous fact long ago), is the wife of Major Manuel Espinosa, for five and a half years aide-de-camp to the President, and commander of the palace guards. Lightning-like, the deductive flash of suspicion leaped from the plumbing plans in the Municipal Archives through the ex-Mayor, his sister and the President's aide to the soldier and the bomb. Confronted by Cuba's Philo Vance with these crushing suspicions, the soldier broke down utterly. He had acted under orders from...