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...inclined toward mystery movies, you will probably like "From Headquarters." The plot is a complicated but pretty plausible one. It includes plenty of perplexing moments and a noteworthy collection of safecrackers, blackmailers, and dope addicts...
Impossible characters, an unbelievable plot, and complete disregard of the life-work of Margaret Sanger rob the picture of any value as sex-education propaganda. The association of passionate osculation with such things as positive Wasserman reactions and unsanitary abortions is not, however, without effect. The reviewer heard a damsel who had all the earmarks of an inmate of a local institution of higher learning for females remark after the show, "I don't see how a girl could ever want to kiss anyone again after seeing that...
...ground out by some studio back with a memory stopping at the year 1918, and with a bad case of the jitters; the music, if you care to call it such, is not bawdy enough to do the lovable Mae justice, and there is not enough of it. The plot is jerky, patchy, and long miles from the empyrean ether of originality. In short, the production has its faults...
...November 1931, the Satevepost published a short story called "Almost Reilly," by Robert Winsmore. Plot : Scatterbrained young Mrs. Madge Wrenn repeats to her stockbroker husband a tip which her hairdresser has received from someone whose name is "Almost Reilly. . . . Not Kelly. More like Reilly." The tip turns out to have come from an astrologer. By the time William Wrenn finds this out, he and his friends have bought the stock and lost money. Madge Wrenn has bought before gossip sent the stock, up, sold for a profit on the bulge caused by the talk the tip started...
...June 1933, Collier's published a short story called '"On a Lady's Advice." by Edward Gardner Jr. Plot: Scatterbrained young Betty Woods repeats to her stock broker husband a tip which her dress maker has received from a woman whose name Betty Woods does not know. The tip turns out to have come from an astrologer. By the time Jerry Woods finds this out, he and his friends have bought the stock and made money. Betty Woods has bought before gossip sent the stock up, sold for a profit on the bulge caused by the talk...