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...show of the Pi Eta Club will be the product of many minds, instead of one as has been the custom heretofore, and its sponsors expect the show to be correspondingly better. Of the five or six manuscripts submitted, the plot will be taken from the book of Howard Finney '26. This will form the backbone of the play. A large part of the "patter" as playwrights have it, will be taken from the book of J. S. Murphy '25. Also the high lights of several other manuscripts will be incorporated, as far as is possible without destroying by abridgement...
Thus when Vicente Blasco Ibanez, a writer of ability, but of little depth, attacks the King of Spain, his plot is doubtless fodder for the cinema kings. Beyond that it need not be taken seriously. The attack was delivered and much was made of it in the daily press. Said Blasco...
QUEEN CALAFIA-Vicente Blasco Ibanez-Button ($2.00). Ibanez has had excellent motion pictures made from at least two of his romances. The shadow of the silver screen is never lifted from this one. The plot is based on the legend of an Amazonian queen who loved her bitterest foe. In modern Madrid, Conchita Douglas, a woman of spectacular proportions who did not hesitate to demolish bare-handed a sinewy gentleman who caused her annoyance, fell in love with the son of an old enemy. Realizing that she was too old for him, she resolved to sacrifice herself, told him (falsely...
Because of the limitation in width imposed by the size of the plot, present plans call for a vestibule in back of the columns of the new building which will contain two large show windows on either side. This will greatly improve the facilities for the display of merchandise which have been very inadequate in the present building...
...Cambodia for the price of a most impossible elephant. As the potentate has not even enough credit left to pay off the messenger who brings a parcel for his bride, the extremities to which he is forced to evade the fearsome Cambodians, may be imagined. To round out the plot there is a French widow with a prodigious family of daughters and a treasure chest for the Crown Prince of Siam. Numerous officers and the Crown Prince himself take care of the daughters, and the Regent looks out for the treasure chest and incidentally, the window...