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...whom no one ever spoke"; Father "his head hung out in front like a lantern"; Frank Stella, and even Dudley. These people do exist. They are not, however, every day characters. Even Laura seems to have a human passion or desire, and one wonders how Dudley, a perfectly ordinary chap, with natural impulses and emotions, ever came to fall so deeply in love with this unresponsive angel. This I consider one of the fundamental weaknesses of Appassionata:" it is not logical...
Memory Lane. This sounds pretty dull and indeed is. It is a story of sacrifice. A small-town husband is contented to allow his wife to run away with a city chap simply because" he knows she will be happy. Eleanor Boardman is the girl...
Carew, impersonated by Lawrence Cecil, his servant William, and a newly arrived chap named Walford set out from the Coast to find the Mungana, accompanied by a Portuguese slave-driver and his flunkies. They arrive at their destination without further ado and find to their delight the diamond fields that had been rumored to exist in the locality. However, complications of a serious nature, arising from the perfidy of the Portuguese, develop when they wish to start back for the coast. In addition the Eternal Triangle is unpleasantly revealed in the thick of the woods, just to make the action...
...chancellors agreed, the Old Cabinet Minister hemmed affably. So the little grey man guessed he was John K. Petre without doubt, evidently a U. S. millionaire and a devil of a fellow for secrecy and mystification. He kept his counsel, was enigmatically acquiescent with the broker chap. He made thousands in Touaregs (whatever they were), millions on the Paddenham Site (for some reason), millions more in Rotors (strange as it seemed...
...City Chap. A good many seasons back John Barrymore was helping people dismiss their troubles in a comedy by Winchell Smith called The Fortune Hunter. Charles Dillingham has resuscitated this hardy veteran, set it to music by Jerome Kern, and given Richard ("Skeet") Gallagher the leading role. It is doubtful if Mr. Gallagher will ever be a Barrymore; yet he serves the purpose well enough. It is doubtful if The City Chap will be a sensation; yet it, too, is sufficient for its purpose...