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...churches, convention halls go elderly, placid people, some blind, some lame or halt, who might not have gone out since the last Chautauqua or travelog in the church basement. They see "Seth Parker and his Jonesport Neighbors" performed with no "props" save a fireplace, chairs and the melodeon. Of plot the entertainment has little; to get the actors off stage for intermission it is necessary to pretend they are all going out for supper. The acting is unpretentious, the comedy naive, such as when Seth gets his foot tangled in a carpet while beating time to music...
...stencilled plot of The Champ might not have tempted many of Hollywood's directors, but it was rich to the taste of Director King Vidor. Far from being ashamed of such an unblushing tearjerker, he laid on pathos with a steam-shovel. Big, ugly, shambling Beery did likewise and little Cooper, whose salary for such undertakings is $1,500 a week, gave a thoroughgoing performance in the same key. Utterly false and thoroughly convincing, The Champ is a monument to the cinema's skill in achieving second-rate perfection. Good shots: Beery dressing when he has a horrible...
...part that made her a cinema star, as she had been a stage star 25 years before,* came later-a bit in Anna Christie. Said Cinemactress Dressier: "They make you a star and then you starve. All I want is a small part to come in and upset the plot...
...Most disputed point in any Roosevelt chronicle : Did the President personally incite the revolution of 1903 whereby Panama seceded from Colombia and opened the way for the construction of a U. S. canal? After a re-examination of all available evidence Biographer Pringle concludes that he did not directly plot the uprising but that he was "extremely well informed" as to the conspirators' plan. The Panama Republic was cradled in Room No. 1162 of the old Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Bent on selling the French franchise to the U. S., Philippe Bunau-Varilla and William Nelson Cromwell buzzed often and loudly...
...With a plot no more preposterous than many detective stories, Man with the Painted Head contrives an atmosphere more realistic than most. The artists' colony at Storr's Point was isolated, inaccessible except through one gate which was kept locked. When middle-aged Miss Fenwick arrived to visit her niece she and the taxi-driver would have been perturbed had they seen the notorious criminal clinging to the back tire. That same night Playwright Van Buren, big frog of the colony, was stabbed to death with an ice pick. In rapid succession came two other killings, several murderous attempts...