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...five months many of the most aristocratic names in Hungary have been befouled by political scandal, as princes, bishops and even the chief of police of Budapest have been implicated one by one in a gigantic plot to forge 30 billion French francs and expend them in financing the return by violence of the Habsburg dynasty to Hungary (TIME...
...cannot be estimated in detail. Such a critique would simply be a catalogue of gags. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp is such a catalogue. It is one of those pictures in which a man gets into bed with an electric fan and emerges in a storm of feathers. There is a plot about a cross-country race to advertise a shoe store. Mr. Langdon is often funny. The picture is often funny...
...Paint (Raymond Griffith). In this picture plot has been taken quietly by the hand and pushed over a precipice. Mr. Griffith starts by making love to a gunman's wife, is surprised by the husband and terrified by his artillery. The rest of the picture is the old movies comedy-chase. Mr. Griffith drives a fire truck through heavily populated streets, invades a Turkish bath. These things are, as always, funny...
...Beach at Long Branch One fine summer's day I was novel-reading to pass the time away. So in-ter-es-ted was I In the plot A gent came up beside...
...simple declarative irony much like that with which Author T. F. Powys has exposed the rotten boroughs of England, but without that writer's bookmanship, are the hill and village folk that made possible in this land and century the preposterous "monkey trial" at Dayton, Tenn. Following no plot, pointing no moral, it is simply a contemporary pageant of ignorance masquerading as "smartness," bigotry as uprightness, mob violence as morality, pleasure as the unpardonable sin, among isolated people whose surroundings seem to have become a spiritual wasteland, stunting and evaporating in them all but their physical vigor, malicious...