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...bank moratorium in the U. S., President Machado finally declared one for Cuba. When Governor General Theodore Roosevelt cabled from Manila to find out what he should do. the weary Treasury told him to do what he liked. He resigned, handing his office over to Vice Governor John Halliday...
First heroes in making a city out of a wagon-train village at a creekmouth were the men who organized Denver's own railroad to connect it with the Union Pacific at Cheyenne. They included Governor John Evans who founded the University of Denver; David Halliday Moffat, the mining man for whom the Moffat Tunnel is named; Walter Scott Cheesman, Denver waterworks builder. When Bryan's fight for the 16-to-1 silver ratio was finally defeated, silver was ruined, but not Denver. Its railroad enabled it to change from mining city to food city. Modern Denver was built...
...sequences for the purpose of adaptation. Such alterations as appear, nevertheless, fail to add to the effectiveness of the plot and often obscure the action. Things seem a bit too hurried. There is not the careful focus and delicate shading in the tempo of the action which helped John Halliday win success on the stage...
...above). The story, which borrows the flashy tricks of Vicki Baum's play Grand Hotel, is a conventional melodrama with plot complications which would have been too numerous had they not been bunched on an ocean liner. Among the passengers on the S.S. Transatlantic are: a banker (John Halliday) scuttling to Europe with his wife (Myrna Loy) and mistress (Greta Nissen); an aged lens-grinder (Jean Hersholt), using all his savings on a holiday for himself and daughter (Lois Moran); a gang of international rogues; and another rogue (Edmund Lowe) who combines the faculties of Robin Hood, Don Quixote...
...shows how a clever wife handles an aging husband's infatuation with a younger woman. No new twist is given the theatrical stencil except the inept title which, proclaiming the denouement, effectively checkmates suspense. On the stage it was Misdeal, a play by Basil Woon. Belle Bennett and John Halliday are in it. Best sequence: Miss Bennett teasing the husband who wants to come home...