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While "Big Bill" Thompson exulted loudly over having nominated "his man" and rolled his eyes in anticipation of long happy days at Springfield, the righteous Republican Chicago Daily News grieved aloud at the primary result in a front-page editorial entitled "Dead on the Field of Dishonor" and beginning...
Safe in Hell (First National) is routine death-before-dishonor melodrama except that in most such cases it is considered against the rules for either death or dishonor, no matter how imminent they may be, actually to occur. This time a streetwalker has escaped from New Orleans to an unnamed island to avoid the legal penalty for a murder which she thinks she has committed. She (Dorothy Mackaill), finds herself in a quandary. She can either accept the attentions of a greasy jail-warden, or allow him to give evidence that will cause her to be killed before her husband...
Over the Hill was a vast success in silent pictures in 1920. Mae Marsh-first famed for her portrayal of a girl who preferred death to dishonor in The Birth of a Nation-plays her present role in the mood that fits it, the mood of a decade ago. Sally Eilers and James Dunn have properly acquired the same frame of mind. Though the picture contains temporal contradictions-the moderne apartment of the hack-painter, the two-horse democrat in which Dunn goes to interrupt Mae Marsh's career at the Old Folks home-it should be popular again...
Steal, kill, dishonor father & mother, disregard the Sabbath, have any gods they like and images thereof...
...Saturday Evening Post. Anna May Wong, Chinese-American cinemactress, said: "I see no reason why Chinese and English people should not kiss on the screen, even though I prefer not to." British censors had snipped out the kisses between her and her British leading man in The Road to Dishonor. Mrs. Robert Maynard Hutchins, wife of the newly inducted President of the University of Chicago (TIME, Nov. 25), had her appendix out in Chicago. Mrs. Theodore Hoover, sister-in-law of President Hoover, had her appendix out in Palo Alto, Calif. Crown Prince Christian Frederik of Denmark, visiting London...