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...locale is Italy; the plot rests on a burned will, a departing lover, a nunnery...
...Winter Comes. When the news escaped that William Fox had purchased the rights to A. S. M. Hutchinson's novel, cinema savants shook their heads and commiserated with Mr. Fox. " There is no drama in the plot. Who ever heard of photographing a character sketch? It will go dead...
...Colonel Randall Holies, sometime of the Parliamentary Army that crushed Charles I, regicide's son and broken adventurer, found little scope in the Merry England of Charles II for his sword. Hounded by poverty and evil fortune, he stooped at last to lend himself to a discreditable plot of the Duke of Buckingham's-the abduction of the beautiful actress, Sylvia Farquharson, for his Grace's amorous purposes. But the vile act once accomplished, and the well known Sylvia discovered to be his boyhood sweetheart, Holies proved properly heroic-spitted Buckingham in the liver-wing-suffered...
...Alice Blake, whose idea of Heaven was a brand-new Park Avenue apartment. But on his honeymoon he discovered the horrible truth. Father hadn't really wanted him to be charmingly wicked but to disgust him with the pleasant sins of life by throwing them at his head?a plot of which Alice had been cognizant from the first. The honest people were rogues, the scandalous ones merely natural? so he promptly went to the devil with supple Zimbule O'Grady and felt much better. In fact the tale ends with Harold on the way to becoming...
...British rule in India, complicated by his sensibility of the woman's singular attractions, persuade the dignitary to sacrifice the males to the Green Goddess. The discovery of a wireless set in his palace and the subsequent arrival of British airplanes help to counteract his inhospitable intentions. The plot is well sustained and consistently exciting...