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"Three Cornered Moon," the other film at the University, is unimportant whimsy, but amusing. The title is puzzling until you discover that it is a stock whose fluctuation upsets the Dimplegar family which resides in Brooklyn. When the Rimplegars had money, they were mad. Poverty sobers them; the final scene...
The scene of "Inspector Charlie Chan" is a luxurious hunting lodge on Lake Tahoe: the characters: a famous diva, her four ex-husbands, her flance, and Mr. Chan. Two mysteries appear and two mysteries are solved, to the satisfactory entertainment of all, but Mr. Harrigan, as the Chinese detective, is...
The undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin are very much annoyed by the successful detective methods of Prof. Scott H. Goodnight, the dean of men. The incident occurred on Dec. 7, but the controversy was not precipitated until another member of the faculty. Prof. William Ellery Leonard, recently made public...
...another chance, John Cordways the head of the Board of Directors, who takes an interest in the minor transactions of the business quite surprising in such a great captain of industry, when reviewing the case refuses to be lenient and the man is definitely dismissed. Everybody from John's flancee, Lady Clarissa, to the office boy, intercedes for the dismissed man, but the president is obstinate in his refusal. The employees call a mass meeting preparatory to strike and the situation appears to be desperate. The dismissed man's sweetheart visits Lady Clarissa, and obtains her promise that her flance...
Beginning with the second act, then, the play becomes distinctly amusing. The steps by which mother-ridden Eve Orrin, under the guidance of Dr. Brent Janson, gradually gains her independence--while at the same time the Doctor loses his--are skilfully and logically depicted. There is, further, a fair sprinkling...