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...Crook" by James R. Crowell, "pulp" fictionist, in which were recounted the exploits of Mr. Woodward, the sometime Senator Musgrave, also known as "Big Bill Hawley" and "The Old Boy Himself." Last week the Old Boy, 71, sued Mr. Crowell. He asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to award him $15,000. He claimed he had made an agreement whereby he was to receive one-third of the price paid for his memoirs; Mr. Crowell was to get two-thirds for rewriting them and arranging their publication. Said he: "I asked for an accounting, and I did not get even...
Silence (Paramount) is an oldfashioned melodrama, packed with episodes of a kind which are usually called ''good theatre" to indicate that they have small resemblance to life. A crook (Clive Brook) on the point of being executed for murder, confesses to a priest. His confession, which constitutes the main portion of the picture, shows that, though innocent, he is maintaining a pretense of guilt to shield his daughter (Peggy Shannon). Good shot: a kitten playing with the ball of wool under which the crook has cached a roll of stolen money...
Accepting the crozier (crook) of his office as spiritual shepherd, the embroidered mitre which is "a helmet of protection and salvation that the wearer may seem terrible to the opponents of truth," the two small gold & silver casks of wine and golden loaves of bread which are the offerings of the faithful to its priesthood, Dr. Thomas Kiley Gorman last week donned a pair of white kid gloves (as did Jacob who covered his hands with skins of kid), was blessed and became the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Reno, Nevada...
...interviewer. From the hardest-boiled bosses he wrung the most astounding admissions. Modestly he explains his success by attributing it to a realization of his own sinfulness. Once he had stepped out of the reformer's attitude; "I was never again mistaken for an honest man by a crook. . . . The politicians . . . and the consciously corrupting business leaders have ever since acted with me upon the understanding that I was one of them. It facilitated my work; it explains much of my success in getting at the facts of a situation...
...screen too often. The whole cast displayed a tendency to give the usual Hollywood version of that elusive creature called the "hard-boiled egg." The grease-paint and the voice of the director were painfully present. It is rather to be suspected that the average 100 per cent impure crook would be frightened out of his God-forsaken boots by the sinister innuendoes, and dark looks of this ferocious group of actors. At least, if he wasn't we were...