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...Ohio State University with the approval of the Department of Agriculture. In 1926 Mr. Marshall won the award with a yield of 168.66 bushels to the acre on a ten-acre plot; in 1925 with a yield of 160.1 bushels to the acre...
...intelligent although far from sparkling play is Laetitia McDonald's (Mrs. Wallace Irwin) "Lady Alone". During the first two acts the audience wonders when the real plot is going to begin and then in the very well done third act, finds that the action has apparently been progressing all the time. The final curtain is a genuine surprise to anyone who has taken the play as a polite little society drama in which the heroine would eventually discover that cats who walk alone often grow weary. If Nina had returned to her diamond-in-the-rough Mr. Brett the result...
...Thief. Another mysterious horror-monger keeps the audience guessing and for no good reason of plot. Yet its crazy eccentricity pops, flares and gyrates the idle curiosity, and gluts the modish thirst for murder in every act. Among those possibly guilty are a set of ex-convicts bearing brands upon their foreheads. This is the first play of Edward E. Paramore Jr., clever writer. It is distinguished by better characterization than is usual or necessary in this dramatic form, is exceptionally well acted (Margaret Wycherly, in particular), and chills as well as any of these things can. It is housed...
...sweet maid from the country; a leering villain of the Metropolis; a proud, penniless architect. There is also Love Divine. The director displayed on the screen a facsimile of the story in Liberty Magazine on which the film is based, thus proving conclusively that the thing really has a plot...
...very modern heroine who undoes the doctor by giving herself to him when he had expected to seduce her formally. She, so to speak, ravishes from him the long nurtured orchid of his wickedness. The grim dénouement, though revealed at the inception of the plot, is so skillfully contrived as to come off amid real suspense. Altogether a fine technical performance by an author who pretends only to melodrama but achieves something more...