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Sylvia Sydney Not Listless...
Sylvia Sydney comes out of her listless emotions long enough to give a fine performance in "Mary Burns, Fugitive". The title sounds ridiculously like a dime novel and the story follows that pattern but it is well worth seeing anyway if you like gangsters and strong-minded hero-explorers. Sylvia is much better looking with her hair fixed and Melvyn Douglas is excellent as the man whom she would like to marry if she could but can't because she has been in jail. They marry anyhow...
...have to repress their primordial tendencies much longer. Strong rumor hath it that the Olympian League of West Haverstraw, New York, casting its healthful eyes over our fair land in search of a fertile field, has decided to proselyte the cause of corporate deshabille in these sickly parts. No listless campaign is in store, for the Bernarr MacFaddens up at West Haverstraw have put their undefiled and undraped minds together to produce a powerful program of persuasion. The halls of Harvard will soon echo the salubrious arguments of Olympian debaters, who plan to challenge the more retiring amongst...
...Varsity Polo Team, playing at West Point, defeated the Army in a listless game 10 to 7, Saturday. Piling up an early lead, the Crimson malletmen were never headed, and the only real Army threat came in the last chukker...
...York his automobile caught fire. While the car burned Trainer Heckler worked to save his fleas, removing jar after glass jar from his suitcase, unscrewing the caps to give his pets fresh air. All rallied from the effects of the smoke except Paddy. Next night he was listless, refused his hoop. Next night he was dead...