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...weird melodrama, takes the kinks out of the audience's spines and leaves everyone grasping the plush cloak-hanger ropes. In the lantern-lit interior of an empty refrigerator car ride four characters, the weeds of humanity's garden, playing poker--an unctuous card-sharping deacon, an Italian escaped convict, a thug, and a young hobo, who has had a conventional background. As the freight pulls out of a middle Western town, a girl disguised as a boy hops it. The crowd, not deceived, cuts the deck for her. The deacon wins. Smash goes the lantern. A shot...
Booth Tarkington has written another story for Thomas Meighan; a story that looks dangerously as though he had rewritten it from an earlier Meighan film. The star plays a convict-innocent of course -who gives up his revenge because his girl suggests it. Mr. Meighan's films of late have been just about as thin as milk can get. They are still popular...
When she found herself the wife of a convict she suddenly felt the old yearning coming back. Her husband became in her eyes a hero; the other man was set aside while she helped her mate in trouble. Presently he was cleared and she fell into a vast embrace. The convict returned with a sigh to his carpet slippers...
...attorney of the prisoners were acute, he might conceivably try to get a jury of editors and maintain to them that his clients were hired to conspire as a press agent stunt. Editors would believe him every time. But they would vote to convict...
...Morris Hillquit, suave and literary lawyer of Manhattan; James H. Maurer, labor ora- tor of Pennsylvania; onetime (1915-19; 1921-23) U. S. Congressman Meyer London of Manhattan; Harriet Stanton Blatch, President of the Women's Political Union; and, his grin framed with scars of battle, one-time convict Debs. Fourteen hundred diners and nearly 1,000 at the crowded doors yelled, clapped, bellowed when the hero took his seat...