Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dealing with a rather complicated plot of jewel swiping and necklace swapping, the picture is none the less sufficiently clear for pleasure. Though a bit tedious at times, "Love Under Fire" is a strong backer to a strong forerunner. Orchids to the U. T., then, for a program of definite worth at a time when first rate entertainment seems a thing of the past...
...Hollywood, ex-Convict Jeareld McDonald was hired as technical adviser for gangster films, decided he wanted to act, secured a "bit." A friend saw the picture, told Mrs. Estelle O'Neal whom he had married in 1927. Mrs. O'Neal had Jeareld McDonald arrested for bigamy because later he had married Mrs. Katherine Mandel without bothering about a divorce. Jeareld McDonald went back to jail for ten years...
...Lakeview, Ore., a mad coyote attacked Marvin Gess, 7, bit him five times in the calf of one leg. Ranchers clubbed the coyote to death, slit its throat, pried its jaws loose from Marvin Gess's calf...
...reality they were far more horrible in their subtlety than the more obvious scenes of death and destruction which make audiences shudder. Miss George is almost over-sincere and shows her age, Mr. Tracy does as well as the script allows him, and though his portrayal seems a bit of a patch-work, it is not his fault. Furthermore, the film falls a little flat in its climax...
Just as when a stone is cast into a calm pool and the ripples spread surely onto every farthest bit of the shore, so the death of Thomas Nelson Perkins shocks his friends at home and is felt in all distant countries touched by his work on Reparations. The public praise heaped upon his career at the bar and in industry and banking cannot hide in his friends' minds the memory of a genial counselor, just as generous in his efforts as sage in his advice, nor can Harvard in particular forget the thirty years Mr. Perkins spent as Fellow...