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Harvard students will be given an opportunity to compete in the "Plot-Boiler" Storiette Contest announced it. The Writer for December. A prize of $50 each month is offered for the best storiette of 1200 to 2000 words, based on a newspaper clipping...
...police last week, of one Manuel Trejo y Morales, who gave Toral the pistol wherewith he slew Obregon, was widely rumored to open up a possibility that the Assassin will be retried in an effort to show that he and Trejo were the instruments of a general Roman Catholic plot against the life of General Obregon...
...Broadway, were heard round the world, this picture begins with a good idea: two reporters go to a dance-hall hostess who has the dope about the innocent boy's love affair with a little cabaret girl (Olive Borden). What she tells one of the reporters, constitutes the plot of a well-acted, fairly exciting picture proving principally that Olive Borden is a better actress than most people have believed. Best shot: New Year's day in San Francisco's Chinatown...
...Wife; their Son, an imbecile sample of Young England; their two Daughters, one beautiful of face, one a Major in the Salvation Army, who tries to convert her father; two Suitors, a noisy Nitwit and a Professor of Greek who becomes by the odd and engaging circumstances of the plot, heir presumptive to the Millionaire's munition works and who, by the odd and engaging developments of the thesis, is not thereby deprived of the affections of the second daughter." It is not so called, because George Bernard Shaw wrote it in 1905, before he had become addicted...
...Outcast", the movie, is nothing extra except that the close-ups reveal an incipient double chin on Miss Griffith's. The plot brings a young lady of easy virtue into the marital complexities of San Francisco's haute monde. She emerges with honor and Edmund Lowe...