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Blin Gardner, an ingenuous country lad with a knack for mechanical things, is about to take off for Japan in an aeroplane financed by his pretty fiancee and built by two old "characters" in order to receive a fifty thousand dollar prize. After a great deal of emotion, he finally gets away and is last heard of off the coast of Alaska. The next scene is in a New York hotel. Blin, the victorious hero, is expected home. His publicity manager is storming into telephones, receiving reporters, making engagements for dinners, banquets, radio broadcasts, and arranging cigarette endorsements. People rush...
Glenn Hunter plays the English schoolboy with a certain shy dignity which magnifies the part beyond the author's limits, and rightly so. We know of no scene so rich in possibilities as that in which, teacup and plate on Knee, the lad confesses (in a deplorable sonnet), his love. The laurels of the evening, clearly...
...solid (180 lb.), with crow's feet around kindly eyes, big mouth and a booming bass voice, Democrat Laffoon had won last month's election in no small measure by his ability to put names to faces. He first met Grover Cleveland when as a lad he had marched into the White House with a paper which he doggedly refused to give to any one but the President himself...
...dank corner of the catacombs...the hot metal walls of a chamber converging to force a victim into a measureless pit--these objects of horror entered the world when a pale-browed, black-haired dreamer took another half-bottle a hundred years ago. He was a precocious lad. Scarcely out of diapers, he stood on a table declaiming verse, inspired by a glass of liquor. Later trips to the bottle heightened his fancy in more weird and horrible manner. They won him an all-time record for the number of square yards of flesh he has made creep...
...Niccolls' custody. Said Father Flanagan: "I am willing to back my reputation of years of work that I can aid this boy to become a useful citizen. . . . No boy of twelve can be a murderer at heart. . . . I now have the pleasure of watching a 10-year-old lad at our Home, also once charged and convicted of murder, developing into a fine specimen of American boyhood...