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...Show (John Gilbert, Renee Adoree, Lionel Barrymore). The plot is from Molnar's play Liliom. The Austrian hero lived on the largesse of women, stole their greatest treasures, beat them with sticks and fists. But they still loved him with ardor. His mistress (Gertrude Short) deserted him for the villain, buc decided she had made a bad second choice. Jealous the villain tries to kill the hero with a nasty gila monster but fails. Good cast, poor acting, fair entertainment...
Sensation Seekers (Billie Dove). This plot is from Ernest Pascal's Egypt. Billie Dove as Egypt Hagen, society type girl, smokes, drinks and goes bad with six times the diligence of any possible society girl, determined to go to hell just as fast as she can get there. Reverend Norman Lodge (Raymond Bloomer) sidetracks her into his parish house. Preacher Lodge is convincing and that is all which can be said for the picture...
There are Harvards beyond the plot which stands poised between the rotunda and Memorial Hall. Not the least of these is that very different plot, the Arnold Arboretum, upon which Professor Charles Spragne, Sargent spent sixty years of patient effort. And he made it not only a Mecca for students of botany but a place of beauty and a Boston institution. In working for his science and for Harvard he did also a service to the commonwealth...
...military school, in the Uhlans, in gay 19th Century Vienna. Love, of course, is the deity referred to by the title. The report, "Missing in action," is her prothalamium. . . . Author Waring is not just clever. He writes with scrupulous attention to his main obligations-sharp characters, vivid atmosphere, swift plot and plenty of it. Grant his one demand, Freya's incredible ambivalence, and he repays with corking entertainment...
...collection closely resembles the herd obtained on the Castigator's last foray, against the medical profession (Arrowsmith, 1925) and a parallel course is run, from up-creek tabernacles, through a hayseed college and seminary to a big-city edifice with a revolving electric cross. But the Arrowsmith plot is altered. This time the Castigator, instead of exerting his greatest efforts in harrying a fine-mettled creature to refuge in the wilderness, singles out the biggest boar in sight and hounds him into a gratifyingly slimy slough. The tale has an obscure hero, another Lewisian lie-hunter who, to purge...