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...Like That (Columbia) is a distressing but feeble commentary on situations of social discord in an outlying Army post. Jilted by a dashing lieutenant (John Wrayne), the girl (Laura La Plante) marries his friend, who is a colonel. Later, to preserve the morals of her young sister, she compromises the lieutenant so seriously that he nearly loses his commission. Based on Augustus Thomas' play Arizona, which was produced in 1899, Men Are Like That seems a needless survival of an insignificant intrigue. A typically trite shot is the one with which the picture starts: an Army-Navy football game...
...Union City, N. J. Laura del Vecchia, 4, tapped on a neighbor's plate-glass window with a stick. A Mrs. Intermaggio, wife of the owner of the window, rushed out and scolded Laura del Vecchia. Laura's grandmother hurried up, scolded Mrs. Intermaggio. Laura's father bustled up, scolded Mrs. Intermaggio too. Intermaggio arrived; he and Laura's father fought, grappled, crashed through the plate-glass window, had to be taken to a hospital, were arrested, locked up in jail...
...Though to say, 'there is no God' proves one a fool, yet it does not deprive him of his heritage as a citizen, nor of his standing." So last week declared the Alabama Court of Appeals at Montgomery, Ala., in convicting Laura Knight, negro, of the murder of her atheist husband. On his deathbed Atheist Knight had accused her of murder. The lower court which first tried Laura Knight would not accept his statement, believing that since an atheist believes in no hereafter, he fears...
...Chicago, Ill., Frank E. Scott and Mrs. Laura Scott sued each other for divorce. Charges: he switched lights on & off for four hours, kept her from sleeping; she painted black stripes on his brand new grey suit...
...beloved brother killed. After the war he went back to the Gentry farm. Jonathan V, a farmer like his forbears, married a beautiful wife, but she was barren. When his lawyer brother came to visit, she fell in love; Jonathan would not see. When his brother came again, Laura tried to make him run away with her; he refused, and she killed herself by jumping out of his speeding car. Thus the Gentry line ended...