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What a Night. Bebe Daniels, who in the course of her career has made 52 full-length cinemas, includes in her routine one more plot with its main set in a newspaper office and most of its laughs in Herman Manckiewsz's subtitles. Best shot: Bebe Daniels trying not to sneeze...
...Bebe Daniels in "What a Night" supplies more laughs than are usually forth-coming in what the producers label "comedy". She and Neil Hamilton carry on as the girl and boy reporters who snag the big news story of the year. The prize incident is when The Boy spills a bottle of ink down his trouser leg. "It's only ink" says She, as she watches it trickle. Does one laugh in a case like that...
Sensation seeking Czechs and Slovaks jammed the courtroom, thrilled by scars and scowls peculiar to the malignant face of Prisoner Bebe...
Even the Czechoslovak judge seemed uneasy in the presence of a prisoner who looked as if he might spring at any convenient throat. When cross examination began all eyes were fixed upon Bebe, ears strove to catch the answers which he made in thick, ungracious tones interspersed with grunts. It was all so primitive, so fascinating, that no one noticed another Albanian, one Ziga Vuciterna, who arose pantherlike among the spectators, stealthily drew two revolvers, advanced upon Prisoner Bebe with a wild and sudden yell, and opened a murderous double fire of dum-dum bullets...
Eight ghastly dum-dum wounds sufficed to kill ferocious Alcibiade Bebe in the space of a few seconds. Even quicker was the rabbitlike dive of the judge under his bench. Jurymen fled so precipitously that one slipped and broke an arm. A stray dum-dum bullet wounded, probably fatally, the distinguished correspondent of the great Italian daily Gionale d' Italia, Signor Adriano Del Vecchio...