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Connell characters, as perfect and unreal as fashion advertisements, achieve life by the sheer velocity of their improbable actions. The Prince reappears in this novel precisely that way, deus ex machina. He modestly accepts a hand-knitted sweater from Hero Gerald Shannon, thereby enabling the latter to become a Self-Made Man and town-builder back in Ireland, as broad Kevin Shannon, his father, had been in the U. S. How might that be? By the same token that Gerald Shannon chances to hang his shoes on the chandelier and trousers in the tub, and to take a circus troupe...
...photographed with filmdom's buffoons-Ben Turpin, Buster Keaton. The dictator of the fourth largest industry possibly meditates upon a smug lawn and a White House in Washington-then sighs, returns to work. After all, he is a president. And, withdrawn from politics, he has become an unselfish deus ex machina to the movies, a veritable polychromatic Pollyanna...
...workmanlike efforts to please. But a large handful of the faithful voiced its solid appreciation for a finished performance of a really fine comedy as the curtain fell on the final miracle of a benevolent "bon Dieu." Even if "le bon Dieu" did turn out to be a "Deus ex machina," no one could deny that the task of bringing the first act situation to a happy conclusion was a miracle of omniscience...
...Downers; 29, Great Scot; 35, 37, M. T. Hope; 36; Betty Bronson; 38, G. Silver; 39, The Would-Be-Goods; 40, Joseph Ward; 41 Hal Winston; 42, Centaur; 43, O. Henry (group of two); 44, Paavo Ritola; 45, John Doe; 46, Joe Dokes; 47, Deus faxit; 48, Oliver Joannin; 49, William Peaiso Lowell; 51, Montgomery Ward; 52, Red Mange; 55, Andy and Min 3rd; 56, She and I; 57, Stoughton Hall; 58, Jesse James and Co.; 59, Monsieur Paraclete; 60, Nestor; 61, Goldy and Dusty; 62, Castor and Polux; 63, Rough and Ready; 64, Les Deux Anes; 65, Joe Albany...
...Cohan; but still, the blurb of the detective which lets the audience, and the actors, know how much he loves humanity seems terribly over-done. It is a trifle sickening for a two-fisted, hardboiled, graft-hunting. Irish detective to fall without warning to the estate of fond "deus ex." Mr. Morehouse would have had it over sooner if he had known his part better. But the prompter's voice can rarely be entirely dispensed with on stock company's first nights...