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After a brilliant career which included the tracking down of Mata Hari Sir Basil retired, a Knight Commander of the Bath, in 1921. In 1925 he was the object of a cause célèbre of his own when lie was arrested in Hyde Park with one Thelma de Lava on charges of indecency, public impropriety and attempting to bribe a policeman. Knowing that Sir Basil was not only a distinguished sleuth but the son of a late Archbishop of York, the British Penny Press gloated. Sir Basil claimed a frame-up. He was fined ?5 and costs...
...chief one being its realistic handling, its sincere action. The spy is, in the first place, a very ordinary very pretty country girl, and so there is no mixing of ball-room and bedroom diplomatics with firing-squad angelics. Madeleine Carroll shows that a Flemish variety of Mata Hari can play around with secret codes, drink-befuddled German officers, and counter-spies without help of a Circle-like reputation, and without confusing the issues by failing in love with a young brave of the enemy...
...face brightens.--We know that they use blanks in Hollywood. But why not pretend?--"Blessings on you, Carla," says Rudi as the bullet pierces his arm, or chest... "Sooch a lock of patriotism, not to shoot the spy." The director paled. "Don't be crazy, Professor. They shot Mata Hari, and Marlene Dietrich in her spy picture. And did the public eat it, did the public eat it? No. The public wants realism...
...scraps of paper to make legible their messages in invisible ink she is lolling crisply in the arms of a Viennese secret agent (Gilbert Roland) and saying in her Parkavian voice how much she loves him. Just when it looks as though Miss Bennett, like Greta Garbo in Mata Hari and Marlene Dietrich in Dishonored, will receive attention from a firing squad, an assistant spy shoots the Viennese secret agent severely enough to keep him quiet till the War is over. After Tonight is a slow and thoroughly affected picture, but it contains as much talk about codes...
...Charles T. Fisher's two-year-old filly Far Star: the $47,000 Arlington Park Futurity, with the favorite, Mata Hari, fourth; at Chicago...