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Stalkers of New York City's perennially bumptious bogey, Corruption (see p. 12). discovered last week that it had a hitherto unsuspected lair: the schoolroom. Three weeks ago Dr. Maxwell Ross, chairman of the Allied Local School Boards of Brooklyn, learned that his personal cards were being distributed at the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club in Brooklyn. Puzzled, suspecting no connection with school affairs, he hired Max B. Krone, private detective, to investigate. Detective Krone unearthed two slick racketeering rings, piled up evidence that they boasted of political "hook-ups," promised small favors to all who would pay for them...
...direction is rapid and expert. The only weak spot is Huck Finn (Junior Durkin) who has been edged almost out of the story because a separate picture about him is going to be made soon. Best technical shot: speech used as a sound-accompaniment of action in the schoolroom scene, where the teacher keeps on talking while the camera follows more interesting things...
Summoned by their lustily bawling village crier, the peasants have gathered, suspiciously at first, then with growing excited interest at their schoolroom, outside which halted a truck sent by the Ministry of Education, equipped with an electric generator from which cables led to a whirring machine inside the schoolroom that flashed pictures which actually moved...
...bare schoolroom walls of the Great Neck High School (L. I.) and of 35 Rochester, N. Y., public, private, parochial schools, rasp and cackle such pedagogical pronounciamentos, warnings, chastisements...
...schoolroom is not the proper theatre for religious, political or personal propaganda...