Word: crooked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...associates (TIME, Aug. 11) made Negroes "noble." A procession marched into Liberty Hall, which was formerly a garage. First came a beadle, then an archdeacon, then a priest in red biretta, then Bishop McGuire of Africa in a purple cape and mitre of gold cloth, carrying a crook and wearing his bishop's ring of amethyst over a pair of white gloves. At the rear came Marcus Garvey in a feathered hat and George O. Marke, Royal Potentate, who came from Sierra Leone for the ceremony...
...again finds a place on the screen, gets in some of its best work here. In this film transcription of Rex Beach's story, an American girl, forced by privation to become an adventuress, marries a wealthy man for his money, deserts him and seeks love with a crook. The avenging husband forces them to live together, threatening to expose the woman for bigamy, and then, as propinquity causes them to hate each other, the fight begins. Betty Blythe (in a blonde wig), Mahlon Hamilton and Clive Brook show some very human reactions...
...voluntary witness, A. L. Fink, of Rochester, N. Y., declared: "I am the man to whom Frank Vanderlip tried to give $1,000 for perjured testimony against President Coolidge." Senator Brookhart replied: "We 'don't want your lies!" And Senator Ashurst told Fink he was a "crook...
...play is of the crook melodrama type in which someone is robbed of something and in which everyone is supposed to believe the worst of the most patently guiltless person in the cast Miss Wood is picked for the latter role, and if anyone could believe the worst of Miss Wood, except a stage detective and those members of the cast who are supposed to direct the finger of suspicion toward her, that man is a very cynical blackguard. So, if you won't believe the worst of Miss Wood, she tries to make you believe the very best...
Leah Kleschna. The daddy of all crook melodramas, first presented by Mrs. Fiske 20 years ago, has been revived by William A. Brady with a stellar cast which proves that all actors are ham under the skin when allowed to run rampant. In this case the director seems to have allowed them to roam at will. The air is thick with gestures and forbidding faces...