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...Young Marshal and his men who had butchered Chiang's guards. For the rest of Saturday and on Sunday and on Monday morning, the kidnapped Dictator persisted in a stratagem characteristically Chinese: he maintained his lips closed and his expression unchanged. Anyone who has ever cured a dope fiend will realize how trying this conduct by the kidnappee was last week to the kidnapper in question. Young Chang fairly howled with anguish at his inability to get Dictator Chiang to enter into the sort of negotiation which any orthodox kidnappee is usually eager to undertake with an orthodox kidnapper...
...uninhibited and because it goes on so tirelessly. In Laughing Gas, his plot involves a transfer of personality between the child star and the amiable, gorilla-faced Earl, with the result that the Earl romps around, paying off childhood scores, until he becomes known as the fiend of Hollywood, while the golden-haired child star takes to whiskey and soda and pays calls on cinema queens. But to speak of Wodehouse's plot is like speaking of the plot of a trapeze act, for his characters merely leap from one precarious situation to another, defying time and space...
...Device for Nominating a Candidate for High Office places a "fresh air fiend" next door to the candidate. When the windows are opened, the fresh air addict's pet owl catches cold and sneezes into a toy bugle which summons a company of National Guardsmen who think War is declared and, in their haste, upset a milkman and break his bottles, spilling milk which attracts hundreds of cats, whose howling wakes up the neighbors, whose own angry yells and howls the candidate mistakes for the voices of his constituents calling on him to save the country. The candidate thereupon...
...when divine justice is being reproachfully questioned by Ramona's homely protectress, along comes Filipe (Kent Taylor), Ramona's other lover, and promises to be a satisfactory compensation. If these broad outlines leave you cold, you may still be affected by the sight of John Carradine, that lean, relentless fiend from "The Prisoner of Shark's Island", dragging along the futilely resisting Ramona as he goes to pump three bullcts into the helpless Alessandro, for having taken his (the American's) horse in a desperate effort to save the life of his baby...
...News did the cleverest and worst," then denounced "the practice ... of trying murder cases beforehand in the newspapers. . . . The real issue is whether Miss Stretz . . . was guilty of murder. . . . But the defense attorney ... is trying also to paint the dead man as some kind of a sadist or other fiend-although he wasn't sadist enough to put four bullets in his lover. . . . The fault lies partly with the newspapers and partly with the lawyers. Both are to blame...