Word: kleptomaniac
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...conference after each sequence to decide what to do next. It is Leon Errol's picture, and the best stretches are those in which, postponing as long as possible the moment for the next conference, he extemporizes while the cameras watch. He is perfectly cast as a kleptomaniac. When he needs a smoke, the man sitting next him in the Pullman smoking room misses some cigars. When the train goes through a short tunnel, the same passenger also misses his ticket. Arriving at his destination, a health farm, Errol poses as a detective and makes a bellboy (Stuart Erwin...
...others watched critically its operation as a penological experiment. Only executive clemency could save convicts from the machine-like precision of these criminal statutes. Last week other States saw New York send its first woman to jail for life under their stiff provisions. She was Ruth St. Clair, 30, kleptomaniac. Her fourth offense was stealing from Manhattan's John Wanamaker store $121 worth of dresses and baby ware for which she had no need...