Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Thomas Harbaugh, 75, one of the authors of the Nick Carter Detective Stories and other dime novels; penniless in the Miami County Home, Ohio. He wrote from 300 to 600 thrillers, at the rate of one a week, with pen; later, in the days of the typewriter, he sometimes bettered his speed...
Feet of Clay. When Cecil de Mille and his friends get whirling around "society's playground," the unfortunate observer can fortify himself with only one reflection. He is watching motion pictures at their worst. Probably Mr. de Mille would reply that he knows his is a dime novel edition of the social register but that is what the people want. If the people want it, they certainly get it in the first part of Feet of Clay. By the time the characters slip into purgatory, society's playground is ploughed for miles around by the difficulties encountered by a woman...
...OFF?George Randolph Chester?Harper ($2.00). A pleasant picture of the cinema industry as conceived by the average fan. The hero, gifted with a winning smile, infallibility, a flat stomach and gangle shanks, sells his services to "Magnificent Pictures" at an initial salary of one dime per week and progresses in nine years to the dignity of a divorce scandal and his life-long ambition: "Isidor Iskovitch Presents." The story of his rise begins with the assembling of a $10,000-stake from seven Iskovitch uncles blessed with red beards and businesses of the varying styles to be expected from...
...Millionaire Kid," "Sam the Scratcher," "Hotel Bill," "Little Gyp" and their friends. They are members of the Marshall Stillman Movement-all of them bad men and bad women who, in spite of having gone to prison, have decided to go straight. They presented the Bishop with $100, every dime of which had been collected from people whose Vater-land had once been the Underworld...
...Eleventh Hour. The printed pages of a desperate dime novel are here translated into pictures. An insane prince with the aid of the director and a few submarines attempts to take possession of the world. In order to consummate this interesting experiment he must possess himself of the secret of a new explosive which, when properly applied, is empowered to rupture the Rock of Gibraltar. The heroine (Shirley Mason) constitutes herself chaperone to the only vial of the explosive in existence. Her temperamental charge puts her through a rapid array of situations, such as: rescued from a motorboat by airplane...