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...Diego, Calif., and Phoenix, Ariz.-one Nominee for Vice President of the U. S. His name was Benjamin Gitlow. He was a Communist-six feet high, a 200-pounder with black hair, swart skin, bright black eyes, long fingers, very large feet, round shoulders. His friends suspected a Klannish plot, or strong-arm work by the American Legion, which had warned him not to visit Phoenix. William O'Brien, candidate of the Workers' (Communist) Party for Governor of Arizona, began searching small-town jails through the Southwest. Suspicion pointed to El Paso, in the western corner of Texas...
With what wealth of plot and counterplot did the play proceed! A friend of Jackson Jones lent his incongruous assistance to Billie; he was a person who used these terms in answering a telephone: "You speak first, it's your nickel." Also he suggested a Smith slogan...
...Callaghan writes accurate, tightly packed and swiftly nailed dialogue. He tells his plot like a crack reporter. He tries to solve problems of motive by having his leading character, Harry Trotter, take strange and solitary walks into the night. For no good reason, Trotter leaves his wife, drifts into the bootlegging business. In his relations with gangsters and with other women, his mind takes jumps to his wife?her mannerisms, her legs. Finally, as he decides to go back to her. he is shot in a gang feud...
...Just then Mrs. Abbott (Norma Lee) comes bringing her fetching naïveté from the plains and salvages her husband in two acts of dubious psychology. But if the psychology is brittle, Mr. Nugent's comic gaucherie is quite successful. He elicits considerable amusement despite a trite plot and an uneven script. Furthermore, Miss Teasdale is as lush a blonde as one is likely to see this early in the season. Father (J. C.) and son (Elliott) Nugent wrote the play. Father, son and son's wife (Norma Lee) all appeared...
Chee-Chee. Such is the babyish title of an Eastern and elaborate musical comedy whose plot depends, not upon romance and cotton-wool, but upon the hero's efforts to avoid castration. The hero is the son, born in early wedlock, of the Grand Eunuch. Not wishing to be his father's successor, he flees the royal city in company with his wife, Chee-Chee. On the road, they are beset by Tartars, monks and brigands who beat the hero and take Chee-Chee off-stage for purposes which can be guessed. Finally the Grand Eunuch catches...