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...himself to death in his South Bend home. Active direction of the company had already passed to the two vice presidents, Paul Gray Hoffman, an able salesmanager who first made a fortune for himself as a distributor in California, and Harold S. Vance, in charge of production. With Ashton Bean of White, they formed a triumvirate of receivers who never let their organization slip an inch...
...Paramount). This version of Alice Hegan Rice's homely novel of the 1890's provides a cinema debut for able Actress Pauline Lord (Anna Christie, The Late Christopher Bean). As a poor goodwife in a decrepit shack, her activities include mothering five moppets, hoping her husband (Donald Meek) will return from the Klondike with gold, accepting charity from a rich girl and the rich girl's suitor. Mrs. Wiggs befriends a fluttery spinster (ZaSu Pitts) whom she aids in acquiring a husband (W. C. Fields) from a matrimonial agency. Mrs. Wiggs's second son dies...
Things come to a head when Judge Priest, temporarily disbanded, helps defend a stranger on trial for the knifing of one Elisworth Brown, local dude and "jelly-bean" par excellence. The jury seems ready to admit that Master Brown richly deserves his portion, but nevertheless is prone to regard the unsociable defendant, who probably did not fight for the Stars and Bars, with a jaundiced eye. Judge Priest turns the tables in masterful fashion. While the strains of "Dixie" are wafted into the hushed courtroom, the parson, (Henry B. Walthall) comes forward as character witness on behalf of the defendant...
Beck v. Versailles. Vastly different was the impact on the League of Nations last week of that stern, ramrod-backed bean pole in human form, Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck. Only when the craze for yo-yo tops struck Warsaw two years ago was Colonel Beck seen really to unbend, pumping his yo-yo up & down on its string with pleased dexterity. In the past year the Colonel has been on dangerous ground and he trod it firmly last week...
...like the publican's: "Everyone should be a Jew for four weeks. As for me, two weeks would be enough." It contains its complement of minor characters: a simpleton, a schoolmaster. Klari's girlfriend. If it bad been transplanted, like Sidney Howard's The Late Christopher Bean, instead of merely translated, by Ruth Langner, its merits as a play might have been more apparent...