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...performers. It received everything from the latter in this production and virtually nothing from the former. It reveals a girl who simply could not tell the truth and who got herself, a southern youth, and an Italian nobleman into no end of difficulty through this inability. Madge Kennedy, Sidney Blackmer (giving his best performance in several seasons) and Tom Powers are occupied as these three. Even so, the manuscript is wandering and almost mirthless...
...Carolinian. Sidney Blackmer is a star whose radiance many people have been unable to appreciate. For the past few seasons he has been attempting gorgeously romantic parts and having rather ill success. This play is a melodrama of the American Revolution by Rafael Sabatini. Again Mr. Blackmer seems particularly badly suited to his role...
...play is not particularly good. Handicapped by its star, it makes mediocre entertainment. Mr. Blackmer makes the dent a pillow might if fired from a cannon instead of solid shot. The presence of Martha Bryan Allen, loveliest of our younger actresses, is a vast pictorial advantage...
...Business men should not run out of the country to avoid court subpenas. (He was understood to refer to Messrs. Blackmer, O'Neil, Osler et alii who were not in the U. S. when they were wanted at the Mammoth Oil Co. trial.) "I regard a fugitive from [court] service as second only to a fugitive from justice." (Applause...
...purpose of the early part of the Government's case was to establish that, through a Canadian company as a blind, Sinclair, a Canadian named Osler, H. M. Blackmer of the Midland Refining Co., James E. O'Neil of the Prairie Oil and Gas Company and others had undertaken a fake transaction in oil by which they made some millions- that these profits were converted into Liberty Bonds- that Secretary Fall got a block of these bonds for the Teapot Dome Lease. Osler, Blackmer and O'Neil have taken up quarters in Europe beyond the Court...