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...women wandering in & out of the smoking room of an ocean liner, some of them not sure why they have embarked, others puzzled about their destination until one of them grasps the fact that they are all dead. Still vivid, if over-typical, are the people themselves: the drunkard (Bramwell Fletcher), the charwoman (Laurette Taylor), the clergyman, the snob, the businessman, the young couple who have killed themselves for love. Still troubling are these people's confusions, hopes and fears as the voyage nears its end and the image of "the Examiner" haunts their minds...
...herding cup from McAdam's Black (not Red) Wull. David Moore has been transformed into a handsome young cavelier who wins the heart of McAdam's pretty daughter (his son has also been discarded) as well as the coveted cup. At times Will Fyffe's characterization of the vicious drunkard is superlative, but at other times--notably when he hands the precious cup over to Moore casually, as if it were a drink of scotch--it is very weak. The celebrated race is well-handled, and portrays the extraordinary intelligence of the shepherd dogs, but even here Wull loses only...
...Seeking publicity for their forthcoming production of that aged melodrama, The Drunkard, four University of Oklahoma boys staggered down the aisle of an Oklahoma City church waving a whiskey bottle, threw a State W. C. T. U. convention into an uproar. Amid screaming and fainting women, police arrived and dragged the drunks off to jail. There, when.it transpired that the whiskey was coffee, the jag a joke, the four students were let off. Said one of them: ''It was the biggest act of my career, and before the most unsympathetic audience...
Nearly all prosecution witnesses insisted upon testifying for the defendant. Gist of their stories was that the colonel was a drinker, not a drunkard. At the close of the trial the court itself put Lieut. Smith on the stand and questioned him. His tale was that Colonel Giffin got him to resign, then reneged on a promise to back him in an automobile agency, left him to starve, refused to give him "more" money. Said Lieut. Smith: "If he had handed me a couple of bucks when I went to him for help and said, 'Here, you poor...
...twelve judges (whose superiors could have quashed the charges before the trial began) evidently concluded that Colonel Giffin was a drinker but not a drunkard, set him back from No. 611 to 711 in the current list of 962 lieutenant colonels, left him in the army, eligible for his pension next year. Said Colonel Giffin: "It is a distinct moral victory. . . . I do not feel any animosity toward Lieut. Smith. He just followed his natural instincts." Shortly afterward, another reservist in Manhattan exercised the privileges of any citizen, filed a report asking whether Lieut. Smith should be dismissed...