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BETTY VAN DERCK...
...innumerable opportunities to fill the picture with false heroics; especially when Scott and his men discover that they are not the first to reach the Pole, for Amundsen's Norwegian flag is already planted there. It is much to Frend's credit that John Mills, who plays Scott, and Derck Bond, Reginald Beckwith and Harold Warrender, as other members of the expedition, play their parts as men who can take defeat quietly and then move on to the next task at hand. Mills, in the same spirit, plays Scott with great honesty and authenticity...
...John Derck, a new product of the star mill who looks as if he should do right well for himself, snarls his way through a ninety-minute career as the poor boy who goes bad and does a fine job of it. He starts out by rolling drunks in alleys, works the reform school circuit for a while, swaggers up to be a big gun in his thoroughly realistic neighborhood, drives his good faithful wife to sticking her head in the gas-oven, and finally is hauled up on a cop-killing charge. Bogart, who has also come up from...
...glance wistfully at Abraham Lincoln Life Insurance Co., which had $13,000,000 of perfectly good assets. Working control could be bought for $400,000. Gathering about him a crew of sharpers, Mr. Baiata arranged to buy the company for $25,000 down, the balance in instalments. Clerk Van Derck provided the down payment from Ledger...
...ring-around-the-rosy scheme went askew in St. Paul, where a bank refused to honor Ehlers' signature. President Lindquist scurried up to St. Paul to see his wife and children, and pick up the unhonored draft. By no means embarrassed, Baiata calmly called on Otto Van Derck for another $25,000 piece of "financing." That was too much for the young bank clerk. Prompted by his 22-year-old fiancee, he told all to the police, who dubbed him the "world's biggest sucker." All he had received from the $54,000 actually swindled...