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...Warner brought back with him many photographs and stone rubbings of the Chinese characters of the cave, but did not rob it of any of its contents. He said...
Hence it is hard to tell whether there is any real flesh left on the old bones of this melodrama. Its psychology seems real and substantial as it carries Leah, daughter of the Viennese master thief, through her efforts to rob a French statesman and philanthropist, to her regeneration, achieved with due self-consciousness. In the final act, when Leah leaves her father and his pals, Miss Gahagan, with Jose Ruben, does some of the best acting of the play, and flames out in a final skyrocket burst that makes a good one-act thriller...
...value, changed the name. The only explanation is that paradoxical titles are now in vogue on the screen, following the example of Playwright Shipman on the stage. Shipman might have written this cinema of the master thief's daughter who met the wealthy young man she was to rob, and turned from grand larceny to the grand passion. It is a machine-made picture, and Dorothy Dalton as Leah is only an effigy pulled around by a director...
...called on the President to offer him its honorary Chairmanship. Said he: The boy is the father of the man. Remember that when you grow up you will be about the same kind of man as you were a boy. You don't need to rob yourself of boyhood, but you can take your pleasure in a manly way. I have two boys of my own. I tell them there are only two things necessary for boys-work hard and behave themselves. Do that and there won't be any doubt about the future of this country...
...Chandler Christy's new portrait of Mrs. Coolidge was shown at the White House. She is standing in the south grounds of the White House, with the fountain playing in the background. Around her shoulders blows a filmy white shawl. At her side is her snow white collie, Rob Roy, gazing up at her as she pats his head. To one who does no more than read the description, the picture seems like a Gainsborough...