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...perfectly so that dictaphone records of letters which she relayed to typists would not, like those of her colleagues, be blurred and unintelligible. She gave up her job to act with the Provincetown Players. After experience in stock companies, she got the lead role in The Trial of Mary Dugan. Her first picture, Paris Bound, was an immediate, brilliant success. Now she has a $6,000-a-week contract, is the only cinemactress in Hollywood who has had three of her pictures given what are known as "gala world premieres." For her birthday two months ago, her husband, Cinemactor Harry...
That's The Woman is the latest offering of Playwright Bayard Veiller (The Trial of Mary Dugan, The 13th Chair). In the first scene spectators are apprised that a young socialite (Gavin Muir) will indubitably go to the electric chair for the murder of his best friend unless he is willing to divulge his move ments on the night of the killing. At the last moment Mercer Trask (A. E. Anson), a barrister of the Clarence Darrow variety, is importuned to cheat the gallows, free Mr. Muir. Lawyer Trask has not been on the case half an hour before...
...passing months have found "The Trial of Mary Dugan" to be fairly sound melodrama in the modern fashion. Successful on the legitimate stage, its chorus girl heroics modified by the prevalent taste for detective fiction have been impressed into celluloid to emerge upon the screen in almost recognizable form. This evening, as a part of its "Review Week" program, the University Theater offers a last opportunity to see the loving brother triumphant, the noble innocent acquitted, and the guilty confounded in one dramatic toss of the knife. The popularity of the screen version lies in an ingenious plot, ably unravelled...
Charlie Chaplin in "The Circus" needs no introduction or comment. Just as "The Trial of Mary Dugan" emerges successfully from an earlier backwoods melodrama so Charlie Chaplin, in resisting the temptation to throw pies, finds a more sophisticated comic medium. The pies, however, are not too far around the corner. Thursday evening George Arlise as the suave and realistic Disraell is no less worthy of another presentation...
Once Mrs. Dugan was a cabaret entertainer in Juneau, Alaska. In 1927 she was a housekeeper for an aged rancher at Tucson, Ariz. Apparently hoping to get his property, she murdered him, buried his body in a shallow grave, fled in his automobile. She was accused of murder only after she had spent a year in a New York prison for stealing...