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...prison make nor iron bars a cage. He is a unique gangster, in that even a prison term cannot shake him from his smoky torch of philosophy. When it comes to a showdown and a persistent woman declares in so many words, "marry me or go back to gaol for murder," he stoically awaits her vengeance and marches off with the detective, scornful of a freedom that might have been bought at the expense of his soul. Projecting such mental conflicts is a difficult matter. Muni Wisen-frend does it brilliantly. Last year he played his first English-speaking role...
...Lady in Love. In the Restoration Period, an Englishman went to gaol if he got inextricably into debt-unless, of course, he had a daughter to marry off to a miserly spindle-legged monster. Peggy Wood, a maid passing fair, plays the daughter sold to a miser. But she has her consolation-a ruddy ragged redcoat, Captain Bragdon (Gavin Gordon). Who shall cast the first stone when he, disguised as a corpse and wheeled into the boudoir by the order of the fear-stricken husband himself, comes to life and love? Certainly not hearty, round-bellied, wenching Sir Jeremy (Sydney...
...armful of revolvers. He would rather "sink in his liabilities than be shot by his assets." But Mawruss insists upon going through with it. In handling a Long Island jewel theft case, they flop from the distinguished station of international crime experts to the ignoble confinement of the local gaol. The cause of their downfall: softheartedness and general confusion on the part of both partners regarding the policy of the firm as a unit. Ludwig Satz, notable Jewish actor, assumes the role of Potash, once played by Barney Bernard. His is an original, shrewd Abe. As the overlording Perlmutter, Robert...
Next day they had grasped one of the felons, tossed the pirate in the gaol. He confessed, said that he had been hired by a "master mind" to steal a half million dollars' worth of the art treasures; his employer probably intended to use them as models for commercial imitations...
Comment concerning the incarceration of John Abbott '25, in an Italian gaol has been rife among members of the Current Events Club at Harvard during the last two days. Of course, the subject does possess enough local background to give it savor and flavor. Yet, after all, its importance is, to say the most, conversational...