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...Woman with Four Faces. Here is a high temperature drama with all the available horrors worked in to intensify the plot. Although the picture is hardly a propaganda film, " dope" is the central theme. The present discussion involves a sucession of not unusual situations which are popularly supposed to be " gripping." Betty Compson seems to come into her own for the first time in a feature part that fits her so well that whatever may be good or bad in the remainder of the production can be easily disregarded...
...RETURN OF FRANK CLAMART ? Henry C. Rowland ? Harper ($1.90). 'Frank Clamart's visiting card should read, "Virtuous Assas-sinations?Singly or by the Dozens ?No Reduction Made for Quantity. " A master-criminal, reformed and now crusading against an international dope ring and murder syndicate, he extinguishes evildoers with nonchalance and celerity. His friend, Shane Emmet, a cartoonist with a camera-eye, assists his adventurous labor with blackjack, revolver and sketchbook, and strings along two high-speed love affairs the interim. When the plot is finally unsnarled, scoundrelly corpses fairly heap the floor, and Emmet, strangely enough, receives...
...only key of that door lies on the table near his body. The sole apparent clue to the murder is a new pin found on the floor of the vault. Suspicion falls upon various characters in turn?a beautiful actress?a former partner of Trasmere's now turned dope-fiend?Trasmere's valet?and so on. The explanation, when it comes, is ingeniously simple and highly unexpected...
...discussing the verdict, Russell Dunn, a grocer, and one of the jurors voting for acquittal, said'. "They didn't give us the dope. The prosecution didn't prove that the Communist Party advocated violence. That was the only thing we split on. We kept arguing about that until everybody got tired, but nobody changed his mind all the way through...
...Dice of the Gods. Mrs. Fiske is the latest actress to lend her talents to the dramatic literature of dope, which has filled nearly a dozen theatres this season. At least she is a cheerful dope fiend. Hers no life of nervous shivering, furtive sniffs of coke, and dull-eyed fits of depression, but rather a bright and sunny addict, having a good time with her drugs. In fact the very Pollyanna of snow birds, now singing, now clowning, now whimsical, but always looking on the bright side of morphia. It is, perhaps, the most interesting and innocuous...