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...Port Washington, L. I., that on the morning of Sept. 10, 1924, after the master and his guests had returned from an entertainment for the Prince of Wales, a thief slipped into the Cosden's bedroom and took from Mrs. Cosden's dressing table her diamond bracelet, black pearl ring, pink pearl ring, and pigeon blood rubies (aggregate value: $100,000), slipped into a nearby room and took $42,000 worth of jewels lying on a tray near Lady Mountbatten...
Wealthy Mrs. Paul M. Browne of Darien, Conn., an expectant mother during the summer, had had no occasion to wear her diamond bracelet and earrings until one evening last fortnight. They were gone. Her insurance company called in Private Detective Noel Scaffa, diamond finder extraordinary...
...that they are unfit for the strife that is a rule of the world. Their first instinct, that of hunger, is denied when they are punished for eating a cookie between meals; then their acquisition instinct is curbed when they are unable to understand that a diamond bracelet is more valuable than a rocking horse. When the sex instinct makes its appearance, it is unhealthily denied by the parent's explaining as my parents explained to me, that no decent person ever had such a thing as sex. Finally when the self-preservation instinct develops, it is fought under when...
...John Boles) is the one who sees her off at the station. All this is competently enough put together but, if tested by an emotional seismograph like the "Lie Detector," its graph would be full of dead spots. Shot: Greta Nissen asking her patron to buy her an emerald bracelet...
...Warner) shows a few of the tricks whereby an enterprising bellhop, equipped with light lingers and curly hair, can live handsomely on his wits. The bellhop (James Cagney) is so much interested in dishonesty that he keeps a scrapbook of variations of the badger game, methods of stealing diamond bracelets, false money transactions and likely methods of beating persons who think they can beat the races. By the practice of these wiles, he manages to keep luxurious quarters in the best hotels, preying mostly upon persons no more honest but less versatile than himself. But he is an over-confident...