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...movie has all the conventional dramatic machinery of its type, the amateur detective, the blameless hero and heroine upon whom suspicion falls, a psychopathic murderer, and to say more would give the plot away. Sherlock Holmes probably stirs uneasily in his grave when productions of this kind are made, but he need not be too disturbed, for the play makes no pretense of being more than...
Joan Blondell is advertised as "the girl who knows all the answers," so she is probably informed on the question of just how flat her work can fall. "Big City Blucs" demonstrates the answer plainly. It resorts to the old device, a frame plot: to point the theme, which is the glamour of a metropolis, the cinema is "framed" with opening and closing scenes of provincial simplicity. The work of Miss Blondell and of Mr. Eric Linden is mediocre, and the theme is worked up cheaply and unimaginatively...
...land, the area of which is 4129 square feet, with the buildings thereon is situated at and now numbered 107 Plympton Street and 11 Riverview Avenue. Riverview Avenue is the short street running parallel to Memorial Drive and separated from it by a grass plot in front of McKinlock and Gore Halls. At present a portion of the University's newly acquired land is used for a residence: the remainder is devoted to a parking place used by residents of Lowell and Winthrop Houses...
...plot is worthless burlesque, & hopeless melange of the worst features of the worst detective "thrillers" that the cinema has produced. Professor Moriarty is there, but dull, asthmatic, licking his stupid Bapsburg chops Swearing revenge, the renovated Professor escapes from prison. One is not sure of the method, but there is a tumult of sirens, of whistles, of confused turnkeys slithering over smooth cement floors, of dead ones breathing heartily, hanging stiffly on steel staircases, & splendid tumult to make audiences forgive and forget. The rest is too much. There is a conglomeration of leers pineapples, cockney, forgeries, subway tunnels into bank...
...which no one save the maid, Abby (Pauline Lord), has ever cherished. For a while it looks as if Mrs. Haggett had burned the pictures, that the only thing to do is swindle Abby out of her own portrait. Then the pictures.are found-and Abby blows the whole greedy plot to bits with an astonishing revelation. Shy, shrinking Actress Lord's last two parts (one before: The Truth About Blayds) have required her quietly to maintain a fierce loyalty to a dead genius. She does it excellently. Walter Connolly also has a typical role of frustration, performs capably...