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...wears glasses. Once able to see, Promoter Crandall lost no time in carving a career for himself. He worked in a store, became a reporter for the Tri-State News Bureau, sold cinemas to exhibitors, became the manager of several cinema stars (Theda Bara, Clara Kimball Young, Irene Castle, Lew Cody...
Sound investment advice is this: Watch new industries; determine which company is going to dominate the new field; then buy as much of the common stock of that business as your nerve permits. There is always a new industry or type of business. One was foreshadowed last week when Lew Hahn, famed head of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, said: ". . . some day there may be in the field of retailing a distributing enterprise as great as the United States Steel Corporation is in the field of production...
...fashion has given "another chance;" functioning under Captain Leslie is the inscrutable Tillman, always poking his nose into everyone's business. Frank Sutton's secretary, who seems to know him very well, is a hardened specimen ; but Beryl Stedman, his fiancee, is a pure sweet girl. Her guardian is Lew Friedman, an ex-convict, reformed, very eager to effect her marriage to jolly Frank Sutton. There is also a newspaper reporter who scuttles about like a comic ghost. Robberies are going off all the time, like firecrackers, and Squealer is up to his tricks. It is plain that, in actuality...
...could not be Lew Friedman because the finger of suspicion points at him too soon; nor will the astute reader mistake Tillman's inscrutability for that of a "squealer." Who wishes to marry Beryl Stedman although, she, while she admires his generous, open nature, cannot bring herself to love him? Is not the squealer suspected of being a bigamist and is not merry Frank Sutton overfamiliar with his gaudy secretary? In the big unmasking scene at the end of the book, everything is neatly explained. Sutton is indeed the squealer and he will hang for his bad acts; his secretary...
...habit of Director David Lew-elyn Wark Griffith to sentimentalize his sound themes, to intensify the subtlety of a straightforward situation by allowing the lens of his camera to point for long and frequent intervals at the almost im mobile face of one of his characters. This he does under the name of art; its effect upon the cinema is most unhealthy, be cause it prevents the plot from achieving a proper momentum. Aside from this foible, Director Griffith is consistently aware of his story's potentialities. His photography is always dextrous, at times brilliantly effective. Director Griffith...