Word: contrivedness
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The Haunted House. That strangely combined optimist and cynic, the first-nighter, shook off the lethargy that has consumed him through the mass of inconsequentiality thus far produced this season. He was going to a play by Owen Davis, with Wallace Eddinger in the lead. He relied on the tradition...
The Firebrand?A new author, Edwin Justus Mayer, has contrived a satirical romance of incidents from the life of Benvenuto Cellini. Joseph Schildkraut is principally concerned.
In spite of unscientific and curiously garbled reports, there appears to be something serious behind Mr. Grindell Mathews statement that his "diabolical rays" will be capable of paralyzing a warship, or destroying an airplane; and the value of his invention needs no stronger recommendation than the simple fact that he...
MONSIEUR JONQUELLE-Melville Davisson Post - Appleton ($2.00). Twelve ingenious tales in which the suave M. Jonquelle, Prefect of Police of Paris, deciphers an extraordinary cryptogram, solves an odd murder, outwits the man with steel fingers, finds the secret of the mottled butterfly, etc. A series of admirable detective puzzles, dexterously...
The actors are given a harder task. It is not easy to be a clever, animated picture, even with a gilt frame for adornment and it is, on the whole, rather surprising that they seem as human as they do. Beyond a doubt the reason for this lies in the...