Word: lila
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radio Patrol (Universal) is a story of the radio-car police. Robert Armstrong and Russell Hopton, rookies at the police training school, painfully learn their lessons from Sergeant Sidney Toler, get rough &-tough themselves. At the graduation dance Armstrong takes Hopton's best girl, Lila Lee, later marries her. The two cops work together in the same radio patrol car. Armstrong takes bribe money because his wife is going to have a baby. When Armstrong tries to drive the car out of the district to leave the bank-robbers a clear field, Hopton forces him to drive back, fight...
...Later, when his associates have committed a murder, Echo takes the witness stand as Mrs. O'Grady to save a youth unjustly accused of a crime committed by Echo's partners. Harry Earles, sucking a cigar, appears again in the amazingly sinister role of the murderous midget. Lila Lee sobs convincingly as Echo's girl. Lon Chaney, speaking as ventriloquist, parrot, old lady or Echo, is as successful in disguising his vocal cords as he has always been in distorting his appearance. Best sound: the break in Mrs. O'Grady's voice which leads...
...complications, which reach their climax in a party given at the house of the rich woman whom the gang is out to rob, are made tolerable by their occasional humor and the acting of able bit-characters. Best shot: a sweet old lady, introduced in early sequences as Lila Lee's grandmother, revealed as an astute, avaricious criminal...
Charged with instigating the crime was Lila ("Red Lilac") Jimerson, 39, a Seneca Indian, sallow, flat-chested, scraggle-haired, toothless, a consumptive whom doctors have given two years to live. She had been Marchand's model for Indian pictures for the museum. He had seduced her, continued his relations with her. She loved him. She had told Nancy Bowen on the reservation that Mrs. Marchand was a witch, that she was responsible for the death of Charley ("Sassafras") Bowen, Nancy's husband. Nancy Bowen went to the Marchand house, committed the crime which Lila Jimerson thought would give...
Last week the trial of Lila Jimerson for first-degree murder began in Buffalo. Suddenly the U. S. Government became interested in its ward, the defendant. Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell instructed Richard Harkness Templeton, U. S. District Attorney at Buffalo, to take over Lila Jimerson's defense in the state court. When Mr. Templeton presented himself, with evident reluctance, at the trial, the state prosecutor, Guy Moore, fairly bellowed his protest...