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Lavine, University of California graduate, was first associated with the Examiner at the age of 14 as a contributor of school news. He became the paper's "big shot" reporter and investigator, known throughout the West for his sensational coups. It was Lavine who in 1922 found Clara Phillips ("Hammer Murderess") in Honduras after her escape from jail, and induced her to return to face a life sentence. It was Lavine who wrung a confession from Herb Wilson ("Preacher Mail Bandit") of two mail holdups and killing of a mail guard. Lavine it was who discovered the tell-tale bloodstains...
...sentence.* If sent to San Quentin, Reporter Lavine may meet convict (formerly) District Attorney Asa Keyes, whom he helped send there as a bribe-taker in the Julian prosecutions (TIME, March 24). If permitted to visit the women's quarters, he may even pay his respects to Hammer Murderess Clara Phillips...
True to the Navy (Paramount). Clara Bow was surrounded by sailors once before, in a silent picture (The Fleet's In), and in several others she has begun her love-making from behind a store counter. True to the Navy conforms to the Bow formula: a love-affair, a misunderstanding, a reunion. The formula depends for its success on quick sequences and energetic physical activity; usually makes fair entertainment; but True to the Navy drags. The dialog is the sort in which effects are concentrated in the word "Yeah" and while Bow gives a good performance Frederic March, who plays...
Metropolitan--Clara Bow being true to the Navy. Too much of this already...
...photography with newscameramen at his Fort Myers, Fla. winter home, said: "I don't like these talking pictures. I can't hear a word they say. Something will have to be done for the entertainment of 2,000,000 deaf persons like myself. Take this It girl [plump Cinemactress Clara Bow]. I used to like her, but now she's talking too and that spoils...