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...CHEAT-THE-BOYS?Eden Phillpotts? Macmillan ($2.25). There were two women in Warner Lidgate's life : Betsy Neck, whom he should have loved; Gilyan Neck, whom he did. "Cheat-the-Boys" is the endearing nickname of Gilyan, who tosses the hearts of the youth of Devonshire about in a manner more piquant than kindly. Gilyan meant well by Warner, but the strings of their amours only became the more evolved, despite the timely arrival of Harold Lidstone, cousin from the city. Sunshine, ample-blossoms, cider, a deft and graceful style, carry the docile reader through unhurried pages of reflective charm...
Then suddenly, through the closing act, the mood deepens. The imminence of the Examiner hangs an oppressive cloud over the travelers. To tell of the manner of his coming and the exquisite semi-epilogue between the lowers would be to cheat the reader of a poignant emotional experience...
Where the word "hokum" came from is clear enough. "Hocus pocus" is a veteran in good standing, meaning " to trick, sham or cheat." Obviously it crept into the theatrical vocabulary through the realization that presenting a new play, skit or act full of old stuff is in a sense cheating the audience...
...Cheat. The spectacle of a hot iron sinking into the white contours of Pola Negri's left shoulder- blade should be 50? worth to anybody. If it isn't there is little else in the picture to make up the deficit. Pola starts out in Paris, where she makes two errors of judgment. She incurs the displeasure of a nasty old Hindu; she marries an American newspaper man. The latter's salary, served as a double portion, Pola finds unsatisfactory nourishment. The Hindu re-enters and trouble begins...
...Orango, youthful village butcher, just turned cowpuncher, enters an adobe hut in Chihuahua, Mexico, rendezvous of the smart sporting fraternity. He sits down to a quiet game. Presently an Army officer questions his play. Orango smiles. The officer cries "cheat," and Orango .shoots Mm dead across the table. Orango dashes out, jumps on a horse, and rides into the night-covered mountains-no longer Orango, but Francisco Villa, bandit, known to his friends as La Cucaracha, "the cockroach...