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...second picture, "Ladies About Town," is excellent comedy. Lillian Tashman and Kay Francis are slick, svelte, and most acceptable as a pair of New York gold diggers. They are the best dressed women in Hollywood, and they appear in a vehicle that gives them every chance...
...occurs just when things are looking brightest for Mammy's big family. There is plenty of corn laid by for the mules and blackamoors, fattening hogs grunt in their pen, 25^ cotton has provided a fine pair of blue mules, clothes for everybody and $40 for Christmas. A high pile of tinder-dry stovewood is stacked near the cabin door...
Skepticism greeted a tale of Tibet brought to London last week by one Jill Cossley-Blatt, Englishwoman, and a Dr. Irvine Baird, Canadian. But the pair claimed that they had proof of a tribe who live in a cranny of the Himalayas and "are white and appear to belong to the earliest civilization. We were able to identify this race of people by their writings. Their hieroglyphics are the same as those of the old Chaldeans. It is possible that some 2,000 or more years B. c. they moved away from their home in Mesopotamia and traveled...
...studies, get a job in a track gang. Three years later he was an engineer on the Connecticut & Passumpsic River, now a part of the Boston & Maine. Then he went West. When next seen he was "hogging" (driving a locomotive) on the Lake Shore & Michigan with a pair of red mittens on his hands and a book or two under the cab seat. There is good reason for "Uncle Dan" to sympathize with the 500,000 men laid off railroads in the past two years. The business depression of 1883 took him out of his cab, put him to work...
Ladies of the Big House (Paramount). Almost every program picture contains at least one new idea. In this one the idea is a jail break by women, executed in rough & ready fashion. One prisoner secretes a pair of wire clippers under her pillow. The heroine (Sylvia Sidney) helps her snip at a fence which separates the prison yard from a bay. The jailbreak fails, but since Sylvia Sidney is unjustly imprisoned she gets out before the picture ends. The plot framework which surrounds the prison scenes is diverting and well constructed, but basically improbable. It has to do with...