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...David Steuer, slick little crook-defender, very quiet, very polite, very imperturbable, sitting at Mr. Mitchell's side...
...hero of The Great Jasper was an astrologer who was best acquainted with the stars on brandy bottles; in The MindReader Warren William was violent, spurious but nonetheless likable in the turban of a phony medium. Unlike either. Paul Bavian (Allan Dinehart) of Supernatural is a lecherous and cowardly crook who ends up where he belongs, at the end of a rope...
...about to be revealed, he gets an obliging stranger whom he has met on the train to pose as Ferraro; then he pretends to be the impostor's secretary. This leads to the simpler forms of mountain comedy when the stranger, who turns out to be an eccentric crook, is called upon for a song; also when the stranger makes advances to the village belle (Magda Schneider) in whom the singer has taken an interest. The situation is untangled when she demands a serenade. When police try to arrest the swindler they naturally get the wrong man. Then comes...
...Babbitt Stout, l.c. l.c., Meiklejohn Craig, r.c. r.c., Howard Halton, r.w. r.w., Potter Buffum, s.o.h. s.o.h., Sherman Duffus, h.b. h.b., Supper McAllen, f. f., Nazro Babcock, f. f., White Campbell, f. f., Oettinger Davis, f. f., Thorburn Reed, f. f., Armstrong Stewart, f. f., Oppenheinger Gillespic, f. f., Cadman Crook, f. f., Witmusch...
...Banker Mitchell had need of no ordinary lawyer. He had already advised with such famed firms as Cravath, Degers-dorff, Swaine & Wood and Davis. Polk. Wardell, Gardiner & Reed. But even the most high-powered Manhattan legal talent agreed that there was only one thing to do: get slick little Crook-Defender Max D. Steuer, "greatest trial lawyer of our time." A brilliant, inconspicuous, hawk-faced Austrian Jew, Max Steuer has defended George Graham Rice, tireless stock swindler; Maurice Connolly, Queens sewer grafter. Harry Daugherty, boss of the Ohio Gang: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia underworld chief. He is the profession...