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...World, James Kirkwood is invariably solemn and virtuous. He wins his woman. Usually he is an outdoor soul with all the calm irresistibility of a brooding oak. He grows, in the present instance, in Africa. Beside him grows his cousin, a dope fiend and a very unpleasant individual. Out comes the girl, in love with the latter. Suicides, hypnotism and a flood are employed to solve the somewhat reminiscent situation. Mr. Kirkwood plays a double part of the hero and the bum. Anna Q. Nilsson is the girl...
...Bully. One of those throaty melodramas in which the ingenue is virtuous and the villain a fiend, came in with Christmas and will probably go out with the Old Year. Unwittingly, the virtuous child implicates herself in her master's villainies. Pearls-a great many pearls-are stolen. Emmett Corrigan, who should have known better, waded around in the shallows of the leading part. Several of the cast were almost criminally incompetent. The audience tittered...
...game and were the chief participants in the march from the field that was terminated by the final whistle with the ball on Georgia's three-yard line and three downs to go. Lindley is a hard man to stop when in an open field and he is a fiend on end runs. He is not the Al Lindley that stroked the Yale crew to the championship of the world, but gained his fame prior to football as second baseman and right-fielder on the Yale baseball team last spring...
...arch-conspirator, - Terrorist, - fiend, - murderer and - revolutionary...
...more laets are discovered about Lenin, more theories will be promulgated and many more volumes will be writen. He is, and will be, seen as a narrow-minded demagogue as well as an extraordinary leader and statesman; as a fiend incarnate as well as a glorious martyr. But a very faithful, impartial portait of the great revolutionist may be found in Mr. Levine's biography...