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...professional kidnappers. They speak of their victims as "mental cases," incarcerate them in a suburban sanitarium, where the "resident physician" is the most sinister member of their band. Naturally the kidnappers in The Mad Game receive their just deserts. A kindly beer-baron (Spencer Tracy), onetime leader of their gang, whom they have helped send to prison because of his reluctance to be a "snatcher" as well as a 'legger, gets paroled to track them down. Neatly circumventing the Hays organization's antipathy to gangster pictures, The Mad Game would be an even more satis factory revival...
...outstanding; but the party will not dare to follow their commands again. "Gradualism in reverse gear"--that is what Strachey so aptly called it; and will the rank-and-file stand for that next time? Will it consent to have labour representatives doing the dirty work of the gang it was elected to replace...
...cinema, meets bis opposite, a precious, rich, bespectacled country boy (Charles Farrell). By throwing away his spectacles, telling him to talk out of the corner of his mouth, giving him the Irish name of her jailed lover, she turns the country poltroon into a man-eater and a construction gang boss, then falls in love with him. The complications arrive late, when the lover gets out of jail and Farrell's coddling aunt and charming fiancee (Betty Furness) come to town. Aggie hands Farrell back to his country fiancee, and embracing man-making as her career, turns...
...laborers stopped to read some notices posted overnight by a U. S. marshal. No work was done that clay or the next or the next. The notices were a temporary injunction commanding Montour R. R. to cease & desist from all construction. Though few of the construction gang knew it, their work was halted by President Atleroury of Pennsylvania R. R. and his chief competitor, President William-son of New York Central. And the laborers were probably equally ignorant of the fact that the injunction was aimed not at the little 12-½-mi. Montour R. R. spur but at Andrew...
During the last seven or eight months the journalistic world has been stirred by the coming of Hitler and his gang into scanning history with an eager eye for striking analogies; and, as if by common consent, it has fastened upon 1914 as an instructive date from which to visualize our immediate future. In 1914 military bluster and parading idiocy were controlling the German state; Europe was tense and waiting; friction in the Balkans was apparent and unpleasantly suggestive of contagious possibilities. And with minor exceptions, those conditions are duplicated today. In such a pacifistic atmosphere, Germany's abrupt withdrawal...