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...Madge Evans tried a come-back with Richard Barthelmess in Classmates. When it failed, she got William A. Brady to help her get stage parts. She was playing in George Kelly's Philip Goes Forth when MGM used her as background in a screen test for another actor in the cast. The test came out so well she got a contract. After her teeth had been straightened, her hair dyed and bobbed, she attained the distinction of being the only child actor to succeed in cinema as an adult...
Blackie Gallagher was the most engaging screen gangster to come out of Hollywood since Little Caesar. Gay, ruthless. debonair, he rose from guttersnipe to big-shot with swashbuckling bravado, killing in cold blood all who opposed him. Finally the Law caught Blackie Gallagher, marched him to the electric chair...
...Eastman Kodak advertisements. She is 20, weighs 115 lb., wears a size 13 dress, a size 21 hat. She has soft brown eyes, a cupid-bow mouth, wavy, bobbed, brown hair. Her arms, legs, hands and feet are all long for her height. She posed behind a thin metal screen which was cut out in the centre so as to expose her torso and head to the full rays of a regular x-ray machine. By means of the screen and cut-out a more penetrating photographic exposure was given to the thick part of her body than...
Horizontal shading on the upper sections of the girl's thighs might be mistaken for the shadow cast by short panties made of leaded silk. But Photographer Fuchs, a shy, domesticated gentleman, is certain that the lines are the edges of his cut-out screen which did not even up the two degrees of exposure perfectly...
...pirates. Bias Bay, No. 1 Pirate Centre of the world, is today as unsafe for peaceful merchantmen as the Spanish Main or the Barbary Coast ever were. Because Chinese pirates often disguise themselves as passengers, ships plying in those dangerous waters are fitted with "anti-piracy grilles" that screen off the deck-passengers from the rest of the vessel, prevent surprise attacks. Until last year, piracy was unknown along China's northern coast. Then one March morning pirate junks attacked the British-owned coasting steamer Nanchang, waiting for a pilot off the mouth of the Liao River. Contrary...