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...first floor of Manhattan's dingy West Side Court, busiest in the city, is a dungeon-like room with high dirty windows. A long table, two incredibly battered desks, a telephone booth and a chipped enamel cuspidor make up its office equipment. Around the walls are photographs of unidentified prizefighters and film actresses, a framed obituary of Variety's late Slangster Jack Conway, a yellowed clipping of a newspaper sermon entitled "Success," a picture of a nude dancer with a large ostrich-plume fan, inscribed: ''To the reporters of West Side Court, gratefully and sincerely, Sally...
...huntsmen found him, dragged him away from his pets. On his way to trial Blasius cured a small boy who was choking on a fish bone. He also made a wolf return a pig it had stolen from an old woman. When Blasius was flung into a dungeon to starve, the woman gratefully brought him her pig. In 316 A. D. they beheaded Blasius after carding the flesh from his bones with an iron comb. Venerated increasingly by Roman Catholics, Blasius became one of the most popular saints in the Middle Ages. Churches and altars were dedicated...
...Scenarists Sidney Birchman and Waldemar Young, The Sign of the Cross is a Roman holiday of semi-civilized sentiment which is likely to redeem the $600,000 it cost, validate Director De Mille's dictum that no religious cinema has ever failed. Typical shot: Christians in a dungeon, waiting to be martyred, with a young and handsome female Christian under a beam of light in the centre...
...time they rescue the small king of Alvonia (Mickey Rooney) twice: first when the horses of the Wild West stage coach, in which he is getting a free ride, run away; next when the bad prime minister of Alvonia has imprisoned the king and his faithful tutor in a dungeon and is planning to drown them both by flooding the dungeon. A weird but not entirely indigestible mixture of bucking bronchos and court romance, My Pal, the King is plainly intended for children...
...machine to count the ions in a room, another to bring the ions up to a healthy ratio. Unless there is something in nature beyond human perception, the chemical engineers at Schenectady see no reason why, with artificial-sun lamps, air conditioners and an ionizer, living in a dungeon would not be perfectly healthy...