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...wherever he went, because of violently threatening letters he has received for more than a year from an inventor who says his patents have been usurped by Radio Corp. of America. Police and Post Office Department agents, seeking the inventor, said they knew his name but would give no clew to his identity beyond stating that he once had Manhattan offices in Canal St. and is living comfortably off royalties from a ventilating device...
...Perfect Crime. "The greatest detective in the world" (Clive Brook) retires because criminals are so stupid. He will show them how; he commits "the perfect crime," a murder without a single clew. But finally, he is forced to confess in order to save the life of an innocent man. It is a thoroughly insipid film. To critical audiences, the crime was by no means perfect. The acting of Clive Brook and Irene Rich was exasperating. The "talkie" parts were atrocious, partly faked...
...Ashley Sparks, resident director of the Cunard Line, owns a home at Syosset, Long Island, where he keeps nine servants, four dogs, many a jewel. On May 13, $14,000 worth of jewels disappeared from the house. The servants were questioned; the house was searched; no clew was found. Last week, Sir Ashley's English valet was arrested on a tip from a Manhattan pawnbroker. He confessed to the police that he had stolen the jewels and hidden them in an old coat in his closet in Sir Ashley's house. The jewels were returned to their owner...
...early wandered off into Eugenics, Hygiene, World Peace-always the scholarly crusader. He is a member of a myriad of leagues, associations, institutions, academies. During the War he was president of the Citizens' Committee on War-Time Prohibition. The titles of some of his tomes give a clew to the mind of the man: A Brief Introduction to the Infinitesimal Calculus, The Nature of Capital and Income, National Vitality, The Purchasing Power of Money, How to Live, League or War? etc. And all this was not enough. So Professor Fisher in his odd moments became a businessman-inventor...
...Writer, bibliographer, collector. He trips between his Philadelphia and Manhattan homes on the clew of precious printed matter or autographs. In 1923 the Rosenbach Co., of which he is secretary, paid approximately $43,350 for another copy...