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...Showdown," now on view at the Metropolitan, is obviously modelled on the first Bancroft-Brent opus. Unfortunately it doesn't quite come off: it is an entertaining film and in places a very good film, but it suffers by comparison. Bancroft looks extremely roguish and in spite of the fact that he is cast as a Diamond in the Rough he manages to leave the impression of good clean villainy. Miss Brent, playing a girl reeking with refinement for the first part of the picture, redeems herself by going slightly but uncontrollably native in the latter half. Which brings...
...comedy. Four Walls, believes the hero (who is a product of East Side puddles), do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage. He is a unique gangster, in that even a prison term cannot shake him from his smoky torch of philosophy. When it comes to a showdown and a persistent woman declares in so many words, "marry me or go back to gaol for murder," he stoically awaits her vengeance and marches off with the detective, scornful of a freedom that might have been bought at the expense of his soul. Projecting such mental conflicts...
...intend to use this incident to force a showdown in the matter of flights in China. We intend to hold the wings. We have not the force to meet British imperialism, but we intend to let the world know what they are doing...
...showdown between Spain and Brazil, on the one hand, and the Council of the League of Nations, on the other, has impended since the Spanish and Brazilian governments instructed their representatives on the Council to veto the admission of Germany to a permanent Council seat (TIME, March 29) unless there were simultaneously accorded to Spain and Brazil permanent instead of temporary seats...
Britons wondered whether a Liberal showdown impended at last. To correspondents Mr. George vigorously declared: "I don't intend to fall! I mean to go forward to complete the great tasks that lie before liberalism...