Word: crooked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sitting Pretty. A musical comedy by Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Jerome Kern. Its chief concern is to rouse interest in a millionaire who has unwittingly adopted a young crook and who wants to marry him off to a hand-picked mate. The lyrics, smooth, adroit, prettily rhymed and easily audible, are its only saving grace. Queenie Smith, with her 48 inches of saucy gaminerie, is the biggest asset. She dances like a sunbeam, stopping the show, whenever she gets in motion. Her acute low comedy sense almost twists most of her lines into a laugh. Frank Mclntyre, aside from...
...Moral Sinner. This screen version of Leah Kleschna is likely to be viewed as a deliberately unfriendly act by Mr. William A. Brady, since his stage revival of this famed crook drama of 20 years ago is to be presented soon. It is not in the modern mystery vein of underworld plays, the only mystery being why the producers, after having bought the play for its previous standing and exploitation value, changed the name. The only explanation is that paradoxical titles are now in vogue on the screen, following the example of Playwright Shipman on the stage. Shipman might have...
...describing how officers are trained and disciplined, Mr. Goods made an especial appeal for cooperation between the public and the police. "The criminal or crook never question the law " said Mr. Goode, "but the average citizen quite often resents the enforcement of necessary police regulation which interfere with his personal comfort or convenience...
...greeted him one midnight with: "All I want is all you have." The burglar meets servants, secretary, friends of his victim, and the police, without disaster to himself, we are told. It must take considerable ingenuity to make this plausible, but we are assured that the novel crook is not at all improbable within the limits of the story. Certainly no one wants him probable outside...
...social responsibility. A thief may steal from an honest property-holder without a second thought, but when all the thieves form a little community of wage-earners within Mr. George's series of enclosures, the point of view changes with surprising swiftness. The enterprising burglar degenerates into the commonplace crook, and the newcomer's statement of "Ladies and gentlemen. I have come to live with you; I am a pick-pocket!" is received with coolness, not to say suspicion...