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...Mooney defense hoped that by reviving the case it might make a matter of court record the snarl of perjured testimony which originally helped convict the 50-year-old onetime labor agitator. But it takes two sides to make even a court fight. The District Attorney, a Mooney protagonist, refused to bring charges. His assistant told Judge Louis H. Ward he had no case. Up rose Agitator Mooney to demand his constitutional right to defend himself, to put evidence of his innocence before the jury...
Obviously autobiographical is Hot News although the exploits recounted are a composite of all Tabloidia. Probably for fear of libel. Author Gauvreau has veiled his characters with flimsy disguises which re quire no seasoned newsmen to penetrate. Himself, as protagonist, he calls Jonathan Peters, his tabloid, The Comet...
...rabbits, always hunted, never hunters, life is a battle to keep the spirits up. Protagonist Hops often wonders where is the sport...
...Guaranteed Deaths." On the Verification of Deaths Bill there was stirring debate. "Messieurs we must spare Frenchmen the terrible agony of burial by mistake!," cried one protagonist. "What happened to the Abbe Donnat? On the day of his ordination he fell into a state of complete lethargy and was pronounced dead. Had he been buried at once what a great, what an irreparable loss to France...
...Pathé) depends entirely upon a widespread conviction, the nurturing of which the motion picture industry appears to regard as its most sacred duty, that circus sawdust is a powder of romance. Here a trapeze artist in a traveling circus becomes united, after vicissitudes and theme songs, with the protagonist in a medicine show. A distinguished cast including Helen Twelvetrees, Chester Conklin, Ben Turpin and Stepin Fetchit are involved in the itinerant sentimentalities. The villain is the ringmaster and has a mustachio...