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...prisons last week President Roosevelt swept by a pen-stroke 64 drug-peddlers, 50 counterfeiters, 37 assorted thieves, murderers, white-slavers, violators of postal, immigration, bankruptcy and motor theft laws. At 95? each per day, it was costing the U. S. $52,000 per year to support them in jail. Signing the largest deportation order in U. S. history, the President consigned the 151 criminals, aliens all, to exercise their talents in their native lands...
Deep Dark River begins when Mary Winston, well-born Southern lady, only woman lawyer in Clarksville, Miss., accepts a routine case growing out of a shyster lawyer's theft of a Negro client's cow, is quickly involved in a complex and dangerous intrigue, uncovers a plot to hang an innocent and friendless Negro. Honest, stubborn, self-respecting, acutely conscious of her social and moral responsibilities, Mary has already made enemies by her interference with those who have lived by petty exploitation of Negro ignorance and fear, does not shrink from the more hazardous task of defending Mose...
...that thieves have extended their operations from the theft of umbrellas at Memorial to the larceny of money, gold watches and other valuables from the gymnasium, it is time that the students became aroused to the evil and turned their attention to the detection of the culprits...
...have noticed in the public lavatories of the Houses that a certain commodity, a commodity that is indispensable to any bathroom, has been marked along the edges of the rolls with colored crayons. Obviously the only possible reason for ornamenting this necessity in this manner is to prevent the theft of the said commodity by the House residents. I have never filched anything from the Houses' public lavatories, for I am a thoughtful boy who keeps a list of petty purchases to be made on the next trip to the Square; but I cannot help feeling viciously insulted when...
...interesting war with Joan Blondell and William Gargan cutting each other's throats. Hugh Robert continues his excellent screen career as an inventor. This time he makes "Cocktall Toothpaste," an ides which has an insidious resemblance to Maurice Chevalier's liquorized chewing gum in "The Big Pond." The ides theft can be condoned, however by the magnificence of Mr. Herbert's acting...