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Reproached by his streetwalker sweetheart (Margot Grahame) for his failure to support her, Gypo chances to see, in the window of a grimy travel agency, a poster advertising passage to America for ?10. This puts him in mind of another poster advertising ?20 reward for information leading to the capture of Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford), who belongs to the Sinn Fein organization from which Gypo has been dismissed for disobedience. Frankie is Gypo's best friend. The ?20 will take Gypo and his Katie out of Ireland. Gypo Nolan's piglike little eyes twinkle as he debates...
...recruiting-poster technique which Warner Brothers perfected in Flirtation Walk has two main advantages. Enlisting the aid of the U. S. Government cuts production costs appreciably. A foreword expressing effusive thanks gives the picture a patina of spurious patriotism which helps sell it to the public. In Devil Dogs, first Cosmopolitan production released since the Hearst cinema producing organization was transferred from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to Warner, these advantages, combined with some of the most exciting stunt flying seen in the cinema since Hell's Angels, were correctly deemed sufficient to compensate for the lack of anything which might...
...worthwhile parts of artistic study. We have here been, we are glad to say, quite successful in excluding anything in our buildings that might suggest art for art's sake, as can be seen by the close relationship, for instance, of the Sargent murals in our library to commercial poster work...
...gadget this year is a hollow cigar through which he peppers court attendants with spitballs from the bench as he presides over a murder trial. He also plays Senator Screwy Short from Louisiana, and a pathetic character who wanders into a Communist printing plant to get a poster made for a lodge dance. Despite his repeated protests, "We just want to dance!" the poster he finally gets demands that all the lodge members meet in Union Square, march up Fifth Avenue, fight the police...
...Society's first poster. "Who pays the bill?" has been seen in a lot of places recently; it's just a lead for the subject of the first debate, Resolved: That New England should secede from the Union. Four students will each give a seven minute prepared speech. Then, and this is the principal thing wherein the Society differs from those of previous years, the meeting will be thrown into an open forum. Every man in the room will be urged to speak extemporaneously pro or con on the subject of the debate...