Word: crookes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...despite the vagaries of varied mood mottled memoirs of the arts, poetry, after all, is poetry. And Gerald, though an excellent gunman and a fairly creditable crook, has yet to write poetry. Indeed his muse is not sufficiently--to use his own words--distillate. In fact one might even believe murder detrimental to that divine something which breeds noble rime. But then again there is Francois Villon. Modernity lacks savoir faire even the rogues are prosaic...
...months ago, at least, that Carlos the Crook tried to inveigle the lion-hearted Andy Gump into buying fake oil stock. And about a month later the same scoundrel, Carlos, treacherously stole the modest bank roll of the fair Widow Zander...
Loews Orpheum--"The Black Bird", with Lon Chaney. Owen Moore runs away with this picture and the part of a gentleman crook. Renee Adoree and Lon Chaney turn in their usual competent performances...
...Only one character in the picture is honest, and he turns out to be a policeman, which is a good enough joke in itself to show the irresponsible tendencies of the whole production. Along towards the end, however, just when we had hopes of witnessing a college between the crook waltress and the more crooked butler, the picture suddenly went frightfully mushy. Everybody developed a conscience, forsook the honest profession of thievery, and left this department with somewhat of that same feeling of sentimental lunacy that is brought on by a few notes of "That Letter Edged in Black...
...LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY - Ina Claire as the exceedingly lady-like crook who got caught...