Word: dix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greatest Gamble (RKO) is a picture to perplex the Legion of Decency. Scrupulously clean in the matter of major morals, it advertises such minor vices as breaking jail, roulette and spilling water on the table cloth. Philip Eden (Richard Dix), hero of His Greatest Gamble, is, he says, a "half-mad cavalier who lights his cigaret on the stars and throws the stars away." By way of corroboration. he kidnaps his 10-year-old daughter from his estranged wife (Erin O'Brien-Moore); whisks her along the coast of France on a 30-day inspection of gambling casinos; ties...
Stingarce (RKO-Radio) is an Australian bandit (Richard Dix) of the 1870's, named after a barb-tailed fish difficult to catch. A whimsical rogue who gallops about on a white charger, he kidnaps a composer (Conway Tearle), later an orphan named Hilda Bouverie (Irene Dunne) who falls in love with him. The bandit arranges for the composer to hear the girl sing, goes to jail while she prepares to become a great diva. Stately Miss Dunne succeeds as convincingly as do most cinematic songsters, but inevitably she is drawn back to Australia...
...picture "Stingaree", new showing at R. K. O. Keith's, is, unlike the fish, innocuously poisonous. Mr. Richard Dix gives his dashingly middle-aged performance, while Miss Irene Dunne "takes everything in her stride". The part of Sir Julian Kent is played by Conway Tearle with refined restraint; there was nothing else he could do with it. Mary Boland enlivens the highly improblematic plot by a too realistic portrayal of the Colonial dowager aspiring to be a prima donna and pictorial shots of sheep grazing and the Stingaree galloping into the night add to the effect. The remainder...
...this problem which provides the plot for "Journal of a Crime" at the Paramount and Fenway Theatres. Ruth Chatterton could be expected to appear only in that drama where the solution was "a desperate act." It is not fitting that she should adopt the simple formula of Dorothy Dix--"give your husband a little something to worry about." Miss Chatterton seizes a solution that would command the hearty approval of Oswald Spengler--she pulls the trigger on her rival...
...Fort Jay where he was dishonorably discharged in July 1920. Two years later Secretary of War Weeks permitted him to re-enlist to serve out his term, get an honorable discharge and thus qualify for war-risk insurance and the Bonus. He re-enlisted in March 1922 at Camp Dix. On Sept. 1 Private McHam deserted...