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...Actress O'Neill's dismay, Chief Constable Wensley had announced his resignation just before her loss was discovered. The coincidence suggested a new plot to detective-story authors, but to her it just seemed jolly bad luck. Able though his assistants and successors might be, it would have been a lark to have one's jewels found, one's would-be poisoner apprehended, by the greatest Sherlock of them...
...come together at Mrs. Rodney's dinner-party at 7:45 p. m. Another author might have attended the party, woven a plot. But Author Rea stops her character-sketching at precisely 7:35 p. m. leaving her six Mrs. Greenes- all products of English homes, schools, marriages, incomes, social sets-just as she found them, separate beings related to one another only by name and background. Author Rea writes wisely but not well...
...early episodes of their flirtation, and later, when love is frustrated temporarily by one of those misunderstandings based upon questioned chastity, you experience an atmosphere which has been for years the national atmosphere of the Cinema, but which is now being replaced by other, heartier, less elementary qualities of plot and treatment. Vilma Banky, who acts nicely, talks at times in a Hungarian accent, but fortunately neither the sound-mechanism nor the modern sort of wit in direction can make anything new or unfamiliar out of this story which has been variously told in pictures so many times that...
Broadway (Universal). As a play on the stage, Broadway was memorable because the careful realism of setting and character made the high-strung plot seem truer than it was. In cinema the second rate cabaret where a dance team kept love and ambition alive in spite of the machinations of a master-gunman, has been replaced by a palatial and enormous nightclub with modernistic settings. It does not seem reasonable that the clients of such an establishment would pay to see such inexpert dancing as Glenn Tryon's and Merna Kennedy's. Features of the cops-&-robbers subplot...
Sued. Eugene O'Neill, playwright; by Gladys Adelina Selma ("Georges Lewys") Lewis, authoress; for $1,125,000. Her charge: that Playwright O'Neill "stole" plot and characters for his nine-act Strange Interlude from her privately-printed novel The Temple of Pallas Athenae (1924). Playwright O'Neill, in the South of France, cabled: "Never heard of book mentioned. Person must be crazy...