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City Haul. Herbert Rawlinson, one of the good looking men that girls of a decade ago used to admire at the cinema, proves to be a better legitimactor than most of his Hollywood brethren who have tried the stage. As the well-tailored and unscrupulous Mayor of an Illinois city, he performs with a constant gusto and occasional subtlety which extracts a modicum of amusement from a superficial play about municipal grafting. The crisis is achieved when the Mayor's thieveries threaten to reflect on his daughter, but there is a boy who loves her and who is able...
Died. Norman Trevor, 52, longtime legitimactor (A Kiss For Cinderella, The Captive, The Goose Hangs High), cinemactor (Beau Geste, Sorrell and Son); at the State Hospital for the Insane in Norwalk, Calif., to which, suffering from paranoia, he had recently been removed from a private sanitarium where he had been committed by friends. He was born in Calcutta; engaged in the jute industry before going on the stage. Twenty-nine years ago an all-round athlete on Britain's Olympic team, he was awarded the prize for finest physique among the contestants of all nations...
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