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...thoroughly American and determined in her admiration of things Nordic. A great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, she is not far from the stream of American literary tradition. Her sense of plot is extraordinary. This journalistic ability is especially evident in Black Oxen, although I'm not sure that I consider that indubitably readable book exactly in Ben Franklin's line...
...name of the production has been selected, but the committee in charge has chosen to keep it shrouded in mystery for the present. It was also announced last night that the plot is of such an unusual and original nature that it is not feasible to divulge...
...Yankee Consul. The screen version of Raymond Hitchcock's musical comedy coyly shies away from a plot most of the time. This permits the insertion of many comic scenes of the Mack Sennett breed. But in the end you can watch the young American (Douglas MacLean), posing as the consul to Rio de Janeira, rescue the necessary senorita (Patsy Ruth Miller...
Fashion, or Life in New York. A milestone of the drama, this American comedy of manners was first produced in 1840 when the metropolis was only beginning to bustle. Its revival demonstrates how far the Theatre has advanced since its so-called Golden Age. Merely to recite its plot indicates that the very cinema has progressed beyond this stage. Snobbish Mrs. Tiffany, by aping the extravagances of French society, drives her husband into forging. That puts him in the power of a confidential clerk; but stay! he is saved in the last act by an old friend, a wealthy upstate...
...plot, briefly, was as follows:--Daughter returns from Chicago, with society gentlemen in tow. Papa's junior partner (Grant Mitchell) puts on bright clothes, and cuts out society gentleman, with the aid of an artificially colored past. The past becomes the present in the person of a motion-picture actress (Catherine Owen). --Audience employs opera glasses at this point. Thereupon the past and the present become inextricably mixed, the lights are turned off, and some minutes later the hero is disclosed perched upon the chandelier, while the two villians lie blood-smeared in a corner. Hero descends and assumes heroic...