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...tropics, the tropics presuppose a disreputable cabaret, and the cabaret presupposes a girl who wants to keep straight or go straight. All these elements are supplied by the studio. Miss Twelvetrees is a stranded entertainer who is discharged when the depression penetrates to the tropics. There is a priceless old harridan of a honky-tonk proprietress, blowsy and affable, disreputable and roguish, who considerately allows Miss Twelvetrees to pick up a little silver from the sailors in a fitful, fretful, and amateurish way. But when she tries to steal passage money for the States from Mr. Charles Bickford, she over...
Murder in the Squire's Pew tells more of robbery and intrigue than of murder; you feel Author Fletcher granted a corpse only out of deference to his readers' taste. When a well-to-do English clergyman discovered that his church had been robbed of some priceless 15th Century church vessels he was naturally upset; when the detectives he sent for found a dead man in the squire's pew he was struck all of a heap. The murderer was tracked and some of the treasure recaptured in a few days, but before the whole truth came out Canon Effingham...
Following with naive exactitude the plot of Marlene Dietrich's "Dishonored", "Mata Hari" tells the story of the fascinating secret agent of the Central Powers who is employed to extract priceless secrets from allied officers but eventually sacrifices honor and country for love. Afterwards comes the scene in the sombre prison. As in "Dishonored", the heroine in one sequence seats herself at the piano, plays stirring tunes while her lover watches. Ramon Navarro is the young officer who falls victim...
...library building is now complete and we shall put into it our priceless collection of celestial photographs when we move into it in the first week of February," Professor Shapley said. "By the addition of the building to our present cramped quarters, which is larger than the rest of the station combined, we shall gain seven offices and a lecture room, besides the housing for the books and photographs...
...Allen, widely known poet and novelist, will speak tonight on one of his intimate acquaintances. Amy Lowell. The lecture will be held in the new Poetry Room on the third floor of Widener Library, dedicated to Morris Gray '77, Amy Lowell, and George Woodberry '77, and filled with their priceless collections of rare and first-edition poetical works. The room is small and attendance at this lecture is limited of necessity. The talk will be held at 7.30 o'clock...