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Henry Baur, who played Jean Valjean in the French version of "Les Mserables" has an important part in the feature film, while Robert Lynen, the French Freddie Bartholomew, plays Poil de Carotte, the small boy around whom the plot revolves. Catherine Fonteney, of the Comedie Francaise, has the leading feminine role...
Horatio Alger might have used Mr. Hurley's life as a plot for one of his success-novels. South Boston bore and reared him until he was old enough to go on the stage. His first break was the sickness of the regular quartet at the old Bowdoin Square Theatre. The substitute singers included Hurley as bass, and catching the eye of scouts, they moved down to the big money in New York. Under Charles Frohman for three years, A. H. Woods for three, and Arthur Hopkins from 1918 - 1924, he was combination actor and director of plays with...
...story of children of divorced parents, their hardships, and their attempts to reconcile their elders is not a particularly new theme--and it can be deadly if the soft soap is laid on too thick. Yes so charming is the naivete of the three smart girls who plot to get rid of "The other woman" and pave the way to reconciliation between their parents, that an air of reality is lent this plot which otherwise might well have been left in moth balls...
...Baltimore operatives reported a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the way to his inauguration. Sleuth Pinkerton rushed the President-elect to Washington by night, was rewarded by a White House invitation to create the U. S. Secret Service. After the Civil War, Pinkerton resumed his private work, grew rich and famed in the service of pioneering railroads beset by train robbers. But while boyish hearts thumped to the exploits of intrepid Pinkerton men in dime novels, Labor grew to hate the name more & more. For Pinkerton's was also making money by supplying armed guards to employers with...
...type musical comedy without infringing upon strict British cinema-quota laws. For industry and ambition, the effort deserves top marks. The producers not only imported Hollywood Scenarist Dwight Taylor, U. S. Songwriters Mack Gordon & Harry Revel and Manhattan Actress Whitney Bourne, they even used a back stage plot about a cabaret entertainer who becomes a radio singer while her partner (Louis Borell) goes to Hollywood, laid the scene in Paris, dressed the star as much as possible like Eleanor Powell...