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Sheriff Cahoon, mysterious, refused to divulge his evidence, hinted at a plot "to get control of gambling and booze on the east coast." Publisher Eberhardt complained he had been harassed for a year, charged his arrest was a "political plot." Governor Carlton was "not surprised" to hear of the alleged conspiracy against...
...Turkish Foreign Office has started an official investigation and has promised to provide documentary evidence of the complicity of at least one European power in the conflict . . . a plot centering around the organization of an independent Kurd republic which could grant oil concessions to European financiers...
Dancing Partner. The plot of Dancing Partner is the one in which a young and disillusioned rakehell wagers that he can avail himself of the favors of an allegedly virtuous maiden, then discovers that she is impregnable and falls in love with her. Shakespeare thought it such a good idea for a play that he used it in Cymbeline. Furbished up by Producer David Belasco, the play officially inaugurated the 1930-31 season and provided one interesting innovation: a seduction scene in an airplane, high above the clouds...
...plot of The No-Nation Girl by Evans Wall (published by Century Co. July...
...huge town mansion of the young and naif hoodlum, or his devoted butler, or the robbery of the bank whose president is kidnaped at church by gunmen dressed like ushers, or Lowe's stubborn march upstairs to death in a dark room. But none of its unlikelihoods impair the plot. So finely realized in Good Intentions are handsome photography and acting and directing that the familiar fictions are almost good again. Best shot: a crook who has just come out of Sing Sing walking and talking in his sleep...