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...plot was laid in Sandusky, Ohio. Whether the Simmon's home was situated on Main Street or not was left to the reader's imagination. Probably not, because most of the characters were attractive. But the street certainly ran parallel to Main Street, and there was a distinctly small-town background, out of which the title of the play was taken...
...STIFFS?Melbourne Garahan?Seltzer ($2.00). If a goodly number of books of fiction are as dull as fact, here is a book of fact?or so the publishers claim it to be?that is as romantic as fiction. It is impossible to give away the plot, because there is nothing that could really be called a plot. But there are plenty of interesting adventures and extraordinary characters and one can recommend this story (which begins in an oculist's office with a pair of near-sighted eyes) to anybody?which means everybody?who has ever cherished a secret ambition...
...scene is an American artist's studio in Paris. The plot, an effort to show that love can regenerate the wayward. Pedro de Cordoba is the artist; Doris Kenyon, the model who loved him so hard she died. Presumably he forswore, thereafter, his failings and proceeded to the creation of manifold masterpieces...
Somehow there always seems to be a plot. In this instance, it is concerned with the progress of an orphan girl to the ultimate in feminine success?for-tune and a husband. The presence of a few execrable jokes may be condoned owing to the profusion of legitimate risibility. A prospective song hit, Going Rowing, completes the entirely satisfactory exhibit...
Flaming Barriers seems a notable attempt at leisurely comedy which misses fire. It misses fire until the last few hundred feet, when a forest conflagration banishes the leisurely plot and burns the whole thing in a blaze of melodrama. The fire enables Jacqueline Logan and Antonio Moreno to prove her father's fire-fighting apparatus the most efficient in the world. Since everyone but the villain had been trying to prove this throughout the picture, it was the normal solution. The earlier stages of the action, dealing with life in a Main Street Manufacturing Company, are only mildly arousing. Miss...