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Last week Abie's Irish Rose came back to Broadway as a film. It was harmlessly funny. In fact, it was as well done as it possibly could be. Miss Nichols had aided Victor Fleming (famed director of The Way of All Flesh) in putting it together. Jean Hersholt as Solomon Levy (father of Abie) performed with dignity and feeling. The plot was slightly changed: Abie Levy (Charles Rogers) and Rosie Murphy (Nancy Carroll) get married secretly soon after the World War. Their parents' consent is not obtained until twins are born...
...Secret Hour. There is no denying the cinemart of Pola Negri, but it is a shame to see her put into cotton stockings and handing out coffee in a San Francisco lunch room. Nonetheless, JLuigi (Jean Hersholt), potent orange grower, is attracted by Waitress Pola. He writes her a letter inviting her to his farm, enclosing a photograph of his handsome house man, Jack. Then he gets full of giggle water and drives his car into a creek while going to meet Waitress Pola at the railroad station. Of course, Waitress Pola inevitably finds the arms of good-looking Jack...
Alias the Deacon (Jean Hersholt). As in the play of the same name, the hero's occupation is fleecing the wicked rich to invest the righteous poor. An angel-faced cardsharp, he blandly deals his opponents four nines, a flush, a straight, a full house, only to stagger the crowd by slapping down a royal straight flush for his own account, thus taking the largest poker pot ever staked in that town. With the proceeds he raises a mortgage, facilitates a wedding, stores up treasure in Heaven. Then he ambles into a box car and shuffles off to other...