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Treasure Trove. Standard plot for thrillers since Treasure Island is two bitterly hostile groups of adventurers competing to discover and carry off a fabulous hoard of pirate treasure. Such was the plot which Representative O'Connor's House Rules Committee and Senator Hugo La Fayette Black's Senate Lobby Investigating Committee were playing, with the testimony of Howard Colwell Hopson as the Treasure Trove. The steps by which the ambitious rivals reached their present state of front page enmity...
...plot Bright Lights revives the old standby about the burlesque comedian who makes a hit in a Broadway show and falls in love with a fickle society heiress while his faithful wife and partner goes back to "burleycue." Before Comedian Brown is brought to see the error of his ways he is given opportunity not only to sing and dance but turn a back somersault, take innumerable falls, chase madly hither & yon, utter his famed maniacal yell on numerous occasions and tell in baby talk an interminable story about a " 'little bitsy mousie." To show his dramatic ability...
...long (380 pages), slow-moving tale, Honey in the Horn is distinguished for its easy humor, for its wealth of authentic local color wrapped around a slight and artificial plot. Clay Calvert, Oregon orphan, was herding sheep for Uncle Preston Shiveley when Wade Shiveley, one of Uncle Preston's worthless sons, was jailed for having murdered and robbed a gambler. Uncle Preston did not want to be bothered any longer with an offspring who had caused him only misery, persuaded Clay to slip Wade a defective pistol, on the assumption that Wade would try to escape with...
...neatly-landscaped ten-acre plot outside Portland, Ore. the 29th annual camp meeting of the Apostolic Faith began late in June. From States as far off as Pennsylvania and New York its adherents gathered, setting up quarters in 500 tents. They fed themselves at the camp ground's restaurant or bought their victuals from its stores. They knew better than to wear low-necked dresses or to use tobacco or alcohol. Zealous believers in a God whose Son might return to earth any minute, they prayed, sang, shouted night after night until last week when two husky ministers ducked...
...ever swayed in his judicial work by old party affiliations. Yet it is safe to say that very few judges would permit themselves to be moved from what they really believe to be the honest interpretation of the law by any such things." President & Constitution. Smelling a deep plot to change the Constitution, many a Washington observer had by last week convinced himself that to President Roosevelt court curses on the New Deal are really blessings in disguise. Chief clues were the President's outburst after the Supreme Court's NRA decision, his letter three weeks ago urging...