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Author Anderson's plot makes more sense than history: Mary and Bothwell fall in love at once. Mary marries Darnley for mistaken policy, sends Bothwell away. Darnley wrecks himself and Mary by playing in with the Lords, knifes Mary's secretary Rizzio on suspicion of adultery, thus unwittingly giving a spurious confirmation to the lie Elizabeth has spread about her kinswoman. The Lords then murder Darnley, shift the blame to Bothwell when he marries Mary. They defeat Mary and Bothwell in battle. Mary escapes from their jail into Elizabeth's jail and her tragedy waits only...
...plot is farcically fantastic. A Philadelphia nightclub dancer (Polly Walters) reaches Princeton, almost naked in her flight from the scene of a murder. She baby-talks four undergraduates who occupy one dormitory entry into hiding her in their rooms until the police hunt blows over. One of the boys tells his father, a cinema executive, about her. The father and his assistant (Charles D. Brown) decide to exploit the girl and her romantic situation preparatory to signing her for a cinema. In the course of so doing, the dean gets knocked out, the senior (John Beal) who hit him, loses...
...successful young lawer about to begin a political career which is to see him chosen as the Republican candidate for Congress. His wife is the daughter, oddly enough, of a woman whose selection by the Democratic party as candidate to oppose Martin Freemont complicates the novelist's plot to such an extent that it needs the entrance into the story of a complete gangland set-up to clear the way for the eventual triumph of young Freemont...
...Holt possesses the characteristics of masculinity, and very little else; consequently, this side of his nature should be played up as much as possible. The calming down, however, has not been carried too far; he is still bull-necked Jack, the terror among strong men. The plot, appropriately enough, deals with a steel mill, in which jack is at liberty to romp with the hunkies. It is probably the closest approach to the good old Horatio Alger song and dance that the Hollywood demons have given us, and contains most of the elements, in addition, which made Mrs. Radcliffe...
...plot, although trite, is lively enough to provide an evening of more or less semi-conscious entertainment. The acting is not too rosy, but will pass. I do not recommend the vaudeville which accompanies the picture on the stage of keith's Boston...