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Traveler In Richmond, Va., one Henry Perkins, jobless hitchhiker, begged a night's lodging at a police station. Given a cell, he spread newspapers on the floor, opened an expensive suitcase, dressed himself in silk pajamas. Then he took from his suitcase a small spray gun, sprayed the cot thoroughly, went...
...briefer studies, seem protracted in Pardon Us: they have added nothing to their formula except vulgarity. Funny shots: Laurel & Hardy making friends with the bloodhounds which have been sent to trail them; sing ing "Good morning, dear teacher," in the prison school; going to bed in the same cot so awkwardly that they break the cot...
...York City's police have caused Jack ("Legs") Diamond, whom the city's newspapers have made the local counterpart of Chicago's Capone, is one conviction out of 22 arrests. Last week, however, as he lay with a collection of his enemies' slugs in him on an Albany hospital cot, slim, pasty-faced Gangster Diamond found himself in real trouble. The State of New York was after...
...Bankhead leaves her husband just when he has lost all his money; when she goes to her lover she finds him unfaithful to her. She struggles with poverty, bears a child, and decides that she loves her husband after all. Most inevitable scene: Clive Brook gazing fondly at the cot that contains his child...
...characterized by many boils and caused by a microscopic animal parasite which gets into the blood stream supposedly by bedbug or louse bite. She appeared to be cured in the Autumn before leaving England for Australia. On shipboard she suffered a relapse, was carried ashore to Melbourne on a cot. A German doctor who had helped her in the early stages of the disease directed treatment by cable. Three times King George and Queen Mary sent cheerful messages. But last week, when delirium set in, friends abandoned hope...