Word: crooked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There King Alexander I, spruce, compelling, received Statesman Velja Vukitchevitch. Together these good friends had just broken the long deadlock among Jugoslav political blocs (TIME, Feb. 20) which had seemed to defy the possibility that a cabinet-any cabinet-could be formed. The wily Vukitchevitch by hook & by crook and King Alexander by imperative royal command had again induced the Jugoslav "national minorities" to enter a coalition headed by the "Radical" (reactionary) Vukitchevitch, now the chief bulwark of the Throne...
...among last week's horde of notables with plays for sale. Miss Hurst's play was concerned with Jewish matters, as was her great short story Humoresque, later acted by Laurette Taylor. The latest, inferior to Humoresque, is moderately well performed by Edna Hibbard. She marries a crook, reforms him. Her simple Jewish parents are much harassed by wealthy surroundings thrust upon them by an unexpectedly prosperous son who sells antiques...
Playing the Game. It might be natural for spectators to suppose that the game referred to in the title is none other than the old-fashioned badger game. But in the midst of the machinations the girl-crook decides that, however profitable it may be, the badger game isn't cricket. Unaccountably, she has fallen in love with the husband whom she had married for profit. In the last act she turns her dishonest companions over to the police, recaptures from them some of the money she has hornswoggled out of her husband, and prepares for a legitimate honeymoon...
...Thirteenth Hour provides Lionel Barrymore with an opportunity to do a highly effective imitation of Lon Chaney imitating a three-fingered master crook. Despite his missing digit, Mr. Barrymore is capable of opening all kinds of sliding doors and secret panels; but he is incapable of stealing the picture from a police dog called Rex in the picture (real name Napoleon). Although at an important crisis he mistakes Mr. Barrymore for a wax dummy, this animal adds enormously to what would otherwise remain a not very startling reiteration of the Jekyll-Hyde theme complicated by stupid detectives...
...play in question can hardly be said to be the "melodrama of New York's under world" which the program sets it forth as being. It does deal with crooks, and in this case the efforts of a group of them to go straight, but it is considerably removed from the realism which surrounded such pieces as "Crime". But in the one feature which makes so many mystery and "crook" plays unendurable, "Tenth Avenue" redeems the faults of all the others. The comedy stretches are funny. The wisecracks inserted from time to time to relieve suposed tension, are exceptionally good...