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Mitchell and Frank Craven. Actors Mitchell and Craven have hair which habitually looks as if they had just gotten out of bed, and each possesses an authentic whiskey baritone. Actor Mitchell is Chief of Detectives McKinley. Actor Craven is his crony, a local police court reporter. There follow 90 min. of peerless melodrama and comedy...
Whistling in the Dark. Here is a combination of facile playwrighting (by Laurence Gross & Edwards Childs Carpenter), skilled and humorous direction (by Frank Craven) and notably high high-comedy acting (by little Ernest Truex). A sort of mystery play to end all mystery plays, it relates the adventures of a detective fictioneer who unexpectedly becomes embroiled with a gang of criminals. A fabricator of "more drugs for the drug stores," Actor Truex boasts to his burly acquaintances that he knows how to commit the perfect crime. His method is to secrete poison in the victim's toothpaste. Thereupon the criminals...
Deans and professors representing the colleges and universities are: J. P. Adams, Brown; G. P. Bacon, Tufts; F. W. Brown, Bowdoin; H. M. Dadourian, Trinity; A. C. Hanford, Harvard; B. A. Hazeltine, Middlebury; L. A. Howland, Wesleyan; Craven Laycock, Dartmouth; H. P. Little, Clark; T. R. Mather, Boston University; K. B. Murdock, Harvard; C. S. Potter, Amherst; T. C. Smith, Williams; Elijah Swift, Frederick Tupper, Vermont; C. H. Warren, Yale; W. M. Warren, Boston University; F. G. Wren, Tufts...
Somewhat stealthily, as the vote neared, several Deputies stole out. Not one of these craven abstainers was bald. Bald deputies, Madrid noticed, voted almost without exception for votes-for-women. Very young Deputies, dandies with sleek black sideburns, vainly voted in the negative...
Married. Grady L. Boatwright. Secret Service bodyguard to Mrs. Hoover; and a Miss Mabel Craven of Sutton, W. Va.; in Washington; while President & Mrs. Hoover were weekending on the Rapidan...