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Conservative whips, anxious to plot their party strategy for the ensuing parliamentary term, have threatened, blustered, begged the complacent Labor Government for some hint of the make-up of the soon-to-be-announced Budget. Did the Labor Party intend to retain the old protective duties on sugar, silk? How about foreign automobiles? Grinning Laborites refused to answer. Last week, onetime (1924-29) Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston ("Winnie") Churchill joined the battle. Rising moon-faced from his bench, he glared over his wide wing collar at his successor, wizened Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden...
...POWEL, a Harvard graduate of the class of 1909 and a former editor of the Lampoon, has a way of building an amusing, readable novel around a fantastic plot. This was true of his "Virgin Queene" of a year or so ago, and even more true of his latest, "Married Money," which focuses Mr. Powel's satire on points near at home and tender, that is to say on Harvard and Boston...
Disjointed and disconnected, the plot results in a welter of many unequal scenes. The sentencing of the miner, Hagon Derk, to death for a murder which he has not committed, has power and introduces the play well; but the following scenes, lack corresponding conviction--the "wild party" is only amusing, the accident to the child has some pathos, the wedding of the rich girl and the condemned criminal in his "death-cell" is made impressive by the guitar playing of another prisoner and by the hammering on the gallows outside. The mere listing of the scenes shows how many stage...
...does any good acting save the day; Charles Bickford convinces most, but the others are unable to rise above the disconnectedness of the plot. DeMille's directing produces a single strong feature--the final scene wherein the woman and her two lovers are trapped by a mine cave-in, thousands of feet below ground. Conrad Nagel, presented at last with an opportunity to act, responds, and the realism of the solution of the triangle slightly atones for the production as a whole...
...honest man of his young brother. Thus, at least, the producers of Street of Chance have worked out his character in a picture shrewdly designed to profit by still active popular interest in the murder. Rothstein, played by William Powell, is not named directly, but in general the plot follows the outlines of the real case faithfully-Lindy's restaurant on Broadway is reproduced as "Larry's," and no trouble is taken to keep the Holland House Hotel from looking like the Park Central. It is an exciting and fairly credible melodrama distinguished by Powell's fine...