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...Ned McCobb's Daughter, Carrie, is played by Clare Eames, slim, high-voltage onetime Lady Macbeth in the late James K. Hackett's Shakespearian swashbuckling (crowned by France). Sidney Howard, who knew what they wanted, provides her and the Theatre Guild with an effective Down East chariot, brought up to date with a bootleg plot. Carrie's no-account spouse has committed the indiscretion of appropriating $2,000 in Kennebec ferry fares. Babe, a genial-villainous, gold-toothed brother-in-law from Manhattan lends the sum-when allowed to use the family barn for liquor storage...
...Ned M. Green went out to California "to get the big bootlegger ... to smash liquor at its source." Last week he was indicted on a charge of embezzlement of Federal property. His felony was the use of confiscated liquor to entertain himself and his friends...
...young wife has been deprived of her husband's company at the outset of her honeymoon, while Howell, pretending that he has a very important legal task to execute for a client in Cleveland, goes off to Boston to double-cross for an indiscreet friend. Mrs. Pembroke's son Ned, a hard-hearted Vera who has the usual incriminating letters and ideas of their proper...
...stupidly comical maid, Susie from Sioux City, complicates matters by discovering the rubies and pocketing them in order to claim a reward. This of course, just to make things, already mixed up, a little worse and ten times funnier. There are relatives, one of whom is the finance of Ned Pembroke the police, Vera, and finally Mrs. Pembroke. After the first act, the house proves a perfect trap, thanks to the slogan of Officer Mooney. "You can come...
...possibilities of the movement must be apparent to all. After a strenuous session of Folies-stepping under the tutoring of Ned Weyburn, even Congress might be expected to accomplish something. Think what master-pieces would flow from the pen of Chesterton should he spend an hour daily with Gilda Grey! And the work of a John Roach Straton who had mastered the shimmy is beyond the farthest reach of the imagination...