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Besides the performance of Miss Shearer the other gratifying aspect of the movie is the fact that Robert Montgomery has finally arrived to the point where he has really clever lines to say and not the trite mush that he has had to mutter in the last several movies that he has appeared in. It is true that he gets off one, "Loosen up, little girl" or "Relax. baby, relax" but that can be excused on the grounds that he has been so accustomed to saying those things in the past that he had to utter just...
Next he asked for twelve volunteers in a Mississippi prison, who would undergo a test. The test was alluring. He was going to put them in a house apart and feed them for six months on biscuits, mush. rice, syrup, gravy, sugar, sweet potatoes. The prisoners were enthusiastic until, six months later, they developed pellagra. They were cured with milk and meat, then pardoned...
Their danger lies in their rotting concrete foundations. The concrete penetrates water-logged ground, but was not made impervious to water. Consequently water, especially where it carries chemicals like sulphates in solution, has reacted with the concrete to make a cement mush. The security of the buildings depend on the tenacity of the soil keeping the columns of soft concrete from spreading...
Well, after two or three years the quondam Princetonian returns with a varicose accent, a mouth full of hot mush, a dandified swagger, and a fairly general contempt for things in this bally o country...
...Scans His Past tells a story as much of prairies and snows as of death and love in Canada. Poetic descriptions of nature are lavishly strewn over a French horse-trader's trek from the U. S. to Canada where he sells his herd; then his mush onward by sled and dog, to the frozen Northwest for furs. On the way back death comes to his companion ; and, though freighted by the corpse in a wolf-country, he battles his way back to the girl he loves, Hannah O'Molloy. They marry and there is a child...