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...Naval Research Laboratory. At the laboratory a squad of marines fired several rifle bullets into the box. Then an expert, working with mirrors and long implements from behind an iron shield, pried the lid open. They found the box packed full of small white tablets. Next day Claudius Hart Huston, onetime G. O. P. chairman, revealed that he had sent the tablets?a new form of concentrated heat?on behalf of an inventor friend who wanted an opinion on their marketability from encyclopedic Julius Klein...
...husband will have no more to do with her. The Woman from Monte Carlo has a few good shots?notably one of the enemy ship's searchlight flashing on the wall of the stateroom in which the lady is sequestered?but it is otherwise slim pickings. Aided by Walter Huston, in a mustache, as the captain, and Warren William, as an admirer, Lil Dagover is distressed by circumstances of plot and dialog like those which have hampered other recent debuts of imported stars. She tries hard but all her part gives her a chance to show is a strong facial...
...versatile Walter Huston has split rails for Griffith's "Lincoln" and harangued juries in courtroom scenes, and now, at the R. K. O. Boston Theatre, he goes down to the sea in ships. He earns his bread by bringing in salmon to a tiny fisher village somewhere in the north. Morose and violent, he strides away from the funeral of his first wife to drink barroom whiskey and brawl over a prostitute. Like another Captain Ahab, he rules his son, Kent Douglass, who has no heart for fishing...
...story is not yet under way, A matrimonial agency, in a most improbable mix-up, sends to Mr. Huston's doorstep a young girl of nineteen to be his second wife and charwoman. She is not the solid matron that he wrote for, but a Gish girl, all pure and elfin and made for gauzed photography. She is frightened into marriage with Mr. Huston, whose name is Seth Something-or-other, anything but Parker; but it is plain to see that her destinies lie with Seth's more decorative...
...Douglass is not so much an actor as a boy with fine features, a sensitive mouth and engaging gaucheries. He has made uneven work of his part; at moments he achieves just the right mixture of weakness and fineness to play the son that Seth is ashamed of. Mr. Huston makes a going concern of a patchy plot by his forthright vitality...