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...been divorced by her husband. She goes to work as a dancer in a roof garden show and after a while becomes the mistress of the resort's richest habitue. All daring stuff when Miss Griffith made Lilies of the Field as a silent picture, the little plot seems mild enough now, and its denouement, in which the girl marries her lover, can be foreseen by the end of the first reel. Corinne Griffith's charm is the only thing that gets it over, but it is obvious at times that she is uneasy too, especially...
...Paramount has advanced a neat solution of the whole mystery. "The Street of Chance", now current at the Uptown is based frankly upon the known facts of the Rothstein murder with a mixture of adduced facts and some love interest added thereto in order to make a presentable movie plot...
...result is far better than one might have hoped. "The Street of Chance" is the story of a king among professional gamblers who in the end sacrifices his life in an effort to keep his younger brother from following the life that he himself has led. The plot is well knit together and is surprisingly convincing thanks primarily to the almost perfect casting and to the ability of the director to keep up a sustained interest...
...charge was hurled?with the typical recklessness of the Paris pamphleteer?that the fall last fortnight of the moderate French Cabinet of André Tardieu was the result of an international Socialist "plot." The British Socialists and their leader Scot MacDonald were imagined to have feared that M. Tardieu with his stiff naval demands (TIME, Feb. 24) might wreck the London Conference. It was represented that Socialist MacDonald, through the Second International, secured the aid of Socialist groups in France, and the assistance of French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, with the result that the Tardieu Cabinet was upset...
...MacDonald-Briand "plot" seemed highly improbable, nevertheless nearly everyone in Paris did believe that sly old B'rer Briand was the man who set afoot a national (not international) intrigue among the French Left Parties which resulted in the Cabinet's fall...