Word: crooke
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...FALL GUY?In which a small and futile fellow forges suddenly forward into a crook detector and a hero...
...plot has many a kink and these who add most to the humor of the lines are Miss Hitz as Susie, Bernard Nedell, the "wise" crook. Houston Richards, who has no small gifts as a cone and John Collier, the harassed husband
...Thin Ice. The crook world has a woman's pure love showered on it again. This cinema unfolds the manner in which an artful dodger, Tom Moore by name, has his seedy character disinfected by artless Edith Roberts. To regain some lost bank loot through her, a gang of robbers plant Moore in her confidence as her long-lost brother-and romance becomes imperative. Still, it's much better than it sounds...
...DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS-Eugene O'Neill's treatment of the same old man, young wife and lover situation. More deeply tragic, more directly frank. WHITE CARGO - The horror of the white for the brown melts away under the lonely suns of Africa. SILENCE-The good old crook-and-virtue melodrama played to excellent emotional returns by H. B. Warner. OLD ENGLISH-An unsatisfactory "old British gentleman" play by Galsworthy made into keen entertainment by George Arliss' performance. THE WILD DUCK-Reviewed in this issue
...Gold and In the Land of Youth is thoroughly at home in New York City. He would be at home anywhere, in a curious, amused, detached sort of way. They tell of Irish charm. One sees it in varying quantities. James Stephens has more of it in the crook of his little finger than any other Shamrock wearer I have ever met has in his whole carcass. Small, wiry, with an effort almost of crookedness in the bend of his walk, with a face crinkled and traced by the ways of much laughter, he is constantly making his little jokes...