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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN?A Follies girl is saved on her way to the electric chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

Playing the Game. It might be natural for spectators to suppose that the game referred to in the title is none other than the old-fashioned badger game. But in the midst of the machinations the girl-crook decides that, however profitable it may be, the badger game isn't cricket. Unaccountably, she has fallen in love with the husband whom she had married for profit. In the last act she turns her dishonest companions over to the police, recaptures from them some of the money she has hornswoggled out of her husband, and prepares for a legitimate honeymoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

Ladies Must Dress. After repulsing the improper advances of her employer's son, a shopgirl (Virginia Valli) marries the honest poor boy whom she has captivated with her girl friend's sartorial assistance. This merry plot is a frayed and apparently accidental ribbon tied to the wrist of a fashion show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...transoceanic flights of last summer have been covered by a multitude of cinemas. The Lone Eagle is one of the more petty. It describes the aeronautical antics of an aviator in the late war who. disproves a rumor of cowardice by winning a desperate air duel and a French girl. Film directors are fast learning how to make fainthearted habitues of the cinema grow dizzy at the sensation of being high up in the air. In this, The Lone Eagle is successful. The Lovelorn. On the staff of al most all important U. S. news-sheets there is a lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...Girl from Chicago. Little Mary Carlton, when she comes to Manhattan from her ancestral mansion in the South, tells the gang of crooks who have packed her brother off to prison for a murder he did not commit, that she comes from Chicago. In view of this admission, even her inability to smoke cigarets as if she had done it before does not convince the bad men that she is not a racketeer. Eventually, with the aid of the police and some airplanes, she saves her brother and wins the love of the detective who has been masquerading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

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