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...diamond thieves, one of them a woman, and the kidnaped manager of the Crown Diamond mines, get thirsty in an oxcart. Suspense, provided by the problem of how Gilbert is to get both diamonds and woman, gathers smoothly and almost originally, until the star embraces Mary Nolan in the mine office and Ernest Torrence is led off to jail. Best shot: Torrence lulling the suspicions of the mine employes when a steam-alarm goes off as he is robbing the safe...
...Chancy, as a masked voodoo witch man impressing an African tribe with small-time vaudeville tricks, is no handsomer than usual. Chancy, with paralyzed legs, crawls on his hands or pushes himself in a wheelchair. Never believable, the plot involves a number of scenes in which Chancy, Mary Nolan and Lionel Barrymore act with the naivete, but without the conviction, of a high-school class in the Commencement play...
...Francisco was announced in Los Angeles last week by E. J. Nolan, president of the Los Angeles bank and of the new combination. As the Merchants National and the United Security jointly own the French-American Banking Corp., the merger announcement really unites the three large Giannini banks in California which were not included in the recent creation of the Trans-America Corp. The triple merger, effective Dec. 8, will form the Bank of America of California, with resources...
Team No. 3?Anna King, office clerk, $18; Tommy Nolan, office clerk, $18. Prize money...
...experiment that poetry, the multiplication table, and the telegraphic code can be taught in a shorter time when the student was in hypnotic sleep. This is a great lead to those who want to know How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. I believe that the dear Mr. Nolan, a very shrewd man, would use the idea if he were alive today. Backward students could be lulled to knowledge while they reclined peacefully on their Davenports after a night of ribald revelry. Or the good Widow might have made Trilbys of them and sent them to the examination...