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...heroine was branded with a red hot iron, on the back. As a novelty in this version, Irving Pichel applies the iron to Tallulah Bankhead's front,* murmuring vicious cliches as he does so. A court room scene comes later. The picture is well mounted but the plot is not nearly so diverting as Miss Bankhead's wrestling match with her material. Sample speech, from Pichel, when he is showing Bankhead a trophy case of dolls: "Once they were lovely women who were kind...
Near Canterbury in England there is a title brush grown field. The Vagabond has been led to believe that it is from this small plot of ground that the English derive their term "tripper" for the more conventionally known traveller," or more simply "American." In that field buried beneath grass that has not felt the mower's scythe for years and overgrown with moss which foxes scuffle in wild fear there lies a little marble slab. As men walk over this buried stone they trip. If, after recovering balance, the traveller stoops to examine, he will find that in this...
...with fine features, a sensitive mouth and engaging gaucheries. He has made uneven work of his part; at moments he achieves just the right mixture of weakness and fineness to play the son that Seth is ashamed of. Mr. Huston makes a going concern of a patchy plot by his forthright vitality...
...from Spanish authorities at San Se bastian, French police had raided a little blue-timbered white house at St. Jean-de-Luz, had captured the two sallow youths and a large store of arms and ammunition fresh from U. S. factories. They confessed, and one more plot to restore long-jawed Alfonso XIII to the throne of Spain was bud-nipped...
Amid furor Leader Adolf Hitler blandly disclaimed responsibility for what his Fascists might be thinking or plotting in Hesse. The attitude of the Attorney General seemed to make it possible for them to plot, with a little ingenuity and camouflage, whatever they please anywhere in Germany without committing treason...