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Just why the Mayor should choose at this time to drag forth such musty bones from his political closet is a trifle obscure. Obviously the attempt would be but a feeble one if merely intended to make sweet and clean the name of Curley in the mind of the general public. Besides, elections are far away. Perhaps he feels that Boston supporters will look with approval on the stern chastisement of smart young Harvard fellers. And then, there is the remote possibility that the Mayor...
...Court his daughter Charlotte. President Edward William Edwards (bottles) sent his Eleanore, President A. Atwater Kent (radio) his Elizabeth. But in her own right came Miss Doris Duke, greatest heiress of the nation where most money is, daughter of the late, international tobacco tycoon James B. Duke, plain, wholesome, sweet eighteen...
...First National). The adventures of Joseph Patrick McEvoy's laboriously vivacious heroine are continued in a sequel to Show Girl which is rather duller than its predecessor. Alice White's saucy face and impish dancing tide over long sequences of shoptalk garnished with heavy-handed wit. Best role: Blanche Sweet as a fading beauty of the screen who sings a song to the effect that "there is a tear for every smile in Hollywood...
...Virgin. Anni Rutz, awkward, homely, sweet-tempered daughter of a widowed candy shop proprietress, will play the Virgin this year. Anni is a typist in a saw mill, the first blonde to play Mary in the living memory of Oberammergau. No trouble has she had in fulfilling the obligation of the chosen Virgin to lead a seemly life. For a while it seemed that her younger, much prettier and lazier sister might receive the vote, but the Oberammergau electors are discerning men, not to be influenced by appearances...
...when he finds out she is crooked too. The complications, which reach their climax in a party given at the house of the rich woman whom the gang is out to rob, are made tolerable by their occasional humor and the acting of able bit-characters. Best shot: a sweet old lady, introduced in early sequences as Lila Lee's grandmother, revealed as an astute, avaricious criminal...