Word: doped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WELCOME DANGER (Harold Lloyd)? Flowers, finger prints, a dope ring, love, a Ford, laughs...
...hapless heroine of this play pines for years while the man whom she loves has a ghastly time with two marriages. He is a purblind fellow, played by Kenneth Harlan (onetime cinemactor), who does not appreciate her allure until she saves him from death at the hands of a dope fiend. Just why he should love her then is problematical. The little child of his first wife enters to assist the final curtain...
...long. Lloyd cut it himself at previews in a small town near Los Angeles, marking cuts whenever the audience stopped laughing. Best shots: Lloyd's account of his love-affair with a girl whose picture he obtained from a photomaton machine that functioned faultily; the fight with the dope ring; getting the police commissioner's fingerprint. The Devil's Pit (New Zealand). None of the many cameras searching out strange races of the world has ever caught one in the process of creating its legends, yet it is easy for people who have never seen any Maoris...
...last year's cup is rated as the big favorite. Harvard is given the advantage over Yale in this class because of its victory over the Blue on the Charles last Saturday, but Penn and Princeton, the other two contenders; are dark, horses and may upset all the dope. The University crew is minus the services of Donough Prince '31, flashy stroke man, whose place will be taken by T. N. Perkins, Jr. '31. J.Q. Adams '31 will take the latter's seat at No. 2 and the rearranged crew will meet a crucial test when it lines up with...
...tell you tonight, because I have seen it with my own eyes within a fortnight, that Canton is still, this minute, cursed by a tenderloin - a loathsome well-identified district of vice and crime where the scarlet woman plies her trade, where the illicit traffic continues and where dope may or may not be sold. I am told that the Federal authorities (not local police) have latterly fairly well stopped the narcotic traffic. The mayor of Canton is C. C. Curtis, elected by the people since the death of Mellett, although he had previously been removed from the mayor...