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...Theatre in London from 1915 to 1920, in Manhattan from 1917 to 1919, is at least intelligible to U. S. cinemaddicts. Its actors muffle their accents, sing with no more affectation than U. S. musicomedy performers. Prepared without either the gross exaggerations of a DeMille or the onyx convolutions of a Busby Berkeley, Chu Chin Chow is elaborate without being absurd. It relates the story of Ali Baba (George Robey) and the 40 thieves, exhibits the misfortunes which overtake the head thief Abu Hasan (Fritz Kortner) when he inflicts unjust punishment on his favorite dancing girl (Anna May Wong). Interspersed...
...priest's first concern. In Toledo one night last week Rev. Francis J. Keyes hastened into his church, St. Patrick's. The tabernacle containing the ciborium and Host was gone. So were gold and silver vessels worth $3,000-thuribles (censers), other ciboria, a gold-&-onyx crucifix, a pyx (watch-shaped case for carrying the Sacrament to the sick). Three marauders, whom Father Reyes's housekeeper had seen sneaking out of the church, had spilled holy oil from leaden containers, pried the tabernacle from its carved oak casing with a crowbar, done sacrilegious damage estimated...
...materials used in the sculpture add to their interest and to the effect that they produce. One stallion is created out of cire perdue bronze, plated with gold and ornamented with lapis lazuli, ivory, and onyx. The Black Knight of Auchterarder, a champion bull, is hewn out of a piece of black Belgian marble, and is a figure of great simplicity and monumentality...
There was a pawing Suffolk Punch stallion in gold-plated bronze. Its eyes were of ivory and onyx and lapis lazuli bows tied its braided mane. Baroque in muscle and violence, it was Sudbourne Premier, Britain's famed champion (1921-24). There was Haseltine's first champion job, King George V's own shire stallion, Field, Marshal V, modeled in 1921 when he was still a prize winner. Red and sleek in Acajou marble was the magnificent champion Shorthorn bull, Bridgebank Pay master, winner of the British and Scotch championships three years, in a row. A Hereford...
...full-length portrait, done with all the emphasis on unity of time and place that is currently in fashion, Counsellor at Law shows its subject against a single background, the glittering onyx and aluminum offices of Simon & Tedesco (Onslow Stevens). Playwright Elmer Rice, who adapted his own successful play, surrounded his study of Lawyer Simon with sketches of his associates and friends. Old Mrs. Simon wobbles into her son's office at odd moments, chattering in dialect. Lawyer Simon's stepchildren are nasty urchins who despise him for an illbred Jew. His secretary worships...