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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bound. The heroine's papa is murdered following a raid on a Florida Casino. To everyone but the audience the hero looks like the bad boy with the knife. He isn't. But the cast has a chance to wear a lot of expensively terrible clothes. It is one of those full dress suit movies where everything appears to have been hired for the occasion...
...open shop, because five years ago the unions tied up tne entire port. They resorted to violence. The result was that a million dollars was subscribed to fight the strike. "We went to the District Attorney," continued Captain Dollar, " and said to him: ' If something isn't done about this tomorrow evening you are going to be strung up to a telegraph pole.' There was never another man assaulted on the waterfront of San Francisco...
...GREAT GRANDMOTHER?G. A. Birmingham?Bobbs Merrill ($2.00). It isn't as good as Spanish Gold or Lalage's Trovers. Nor does the inimitable J. J. Meldon appear in it? though one of the principal characters, an Irish solicitor named Royce, bears a pleasant family resemblance to him in speech and ways. But, nevertheless, this slight and smiling tale of the adventures of Basil Price, private secretary to Lord Edmund Troyte, will serve the average reader as an acceptably mild antidote for mental fatigue. The hero first tries to get the fishing rights of an Irish salmon-stream...
...first encounter with the buckwheat cake Arnold Bennett is supposed to have remarked: "I say, it isn't half so rotten as it looks!" This is the impression which Mr. Bradford sets out to give of these seven?as he admits?"paley damaged" and very miscellaneous souls. He makes no attempt to acquit them of their faults, but by showing the light in which they saw themselves, the damage seems more the result of circumstance than of intent...
Obregon, as has often been said, " must win over America and yet assure the people he isn't doing so." His position is now so strong that it seems certain the Mexican people will accept whatever arrangement he makes with America. And the American commissioners, John Barton Payne and Charles B. Warren, are likely to meet Obregon half...