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...plot deals with the struggle of three budding young geniuses a doctor a lawyer and a financier to ward off the wolf till their respective ships come in. The first two have never had a client and the tried. Chubb has only ideas And very excellent ideas they turn out to be. For instance, the doctor's ailing landlady, who has let him keep his room because of professional services rendered, brings in her parrot to he cured of some undetermined malady. Chubb thereupon conceives the brilliant stunt of pawning the parrot to buy breakfast for the three. No sooner...
...Bridge of Sighs. Another bad loss was reported by observers of the opening performances of this picture. The plot reveals an idle youth who steals some money. His girl's father is accused and sent to jail. They go to a lot of pretty tedious trouble to get him out again...
...such remarkably good news at that, yet worth an idle hour or two. Mr. Ray disports himself as the watery youth whose mother makes him take tonics. He is snatched from her protecting clutches by circumstance and thrust into the midst of a dance hall and ranch-grabbing plot over the Mexican border. Fifty or 60 fights and a dynamited dam suffice to make...
...affected when his one time army buddy arrived with a perfectly respectable Rolls Royce, after having deposited his inebriated employer on a train for Providence. Just why anybody in such a condition should want to go to Providence is still a matter open to doubt. From now on the plot becomes so financial involved that only a true business man can understand it. Nedell makes a speech in which he offers to reform, rebuild, and repopulate the town. One can't help wondering if it was quite right of him to want to do all these things. As part...
...causes are not necessarily to be found in a deep-laid capitalist plot. Rather, they arise out of the present course of study and the insufficiency of funds to carry out its complexities. Labor insists on many technical course, middle-class people want cultural courses. Between the two, harassed school officials have been forced to take refuge in a highly organized system of education in order to handle an increased demand for varied studies in the face of a constant supply on money...