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...strange interlude of a fat Senator in a summer hotel was headlined last fortnight as follows: HEFLIN SCENTS PLOT AS BED CRASHES. Last week the Senator and the hotel management, in Asbury Park, N. J., explained. The Senator's story was that two men came to his bedroom door late one evening and said they had come to mend his bed. There were two beds in the room. The Senator asked which they would mend. How did they know in which bed he would sleep? To these astute questions the men could not reply. They could find nothing wrong...
...graphs, one or two plot the reactions of a slight half hour. Such is "Smile." An English husband comes to the Italian nunnery where his wife lies dying. Mismated to her, he dreads their last words together. The Mother Superior, a comfortable woman in voluminous black, greets him with the news of his wife's death. He goes to the corpse, led by a young nun who lures him with mischievous eyes, and a lovely hand "passive as a sleeping bird." In the quivering candle glow the composure of the dead face mocks him, and his embarrassed relief reacts...
Berlin: The Symphony of a Big City- German film with no plot, no subtitles, no stars. Eye-worthy...
...that the Mayor of New York City, James John Walker, was one of the required ingredients of any Manhattan musical show. Usually, as impersonated by one of his many imitators, the Mayor would appear in the last act, a deus ex machina, to solve the transitory problems of the plot. When he attended the show there would be a bridling invitation from the management and the dignitary would clamber readily from his seat in the front row to be himself upon the stage. The producers of Say When had more ambitious plans for the chief municipal executive. Reflecting that...
...Magnificent Flirt. Laid in Paris, it leaves much to the imagination and runs along pleasantly and silkenly. The plot concerns a count (Albert Conti) who appreciates the attractions of a demimondaine (Florence Vidor); but he does not want her daughter to marry his young nephew. A tourist from the U. S. (Ned Sparks) also figures divertingly. Good acting, filmed with originality...