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...Paramount). It is a cinema tradition that the medium for introducing a new star should be a picture in which she performs as a prostitute with more principles than profits. In Wharf Angel Toy (Dorothy Dell) is a San Francisco bad girl, rehabilitated by her pure love for Como (Preston Foster). He is a soap box socialist hounded by the police for a murder he did not commit. Turk (Victor McLaglen), also in love with Toy, helps Como escape. This leads to two climactic moments which, like the heroine, appear to have been dredged up from the past...
...student and restive alumnus saw more to the affair than a youthful outburst, more to the rumored faculty unrest than the squabbles and jealousies which beset every university administration. Back of it all, they said, was the refusal of Trinity-Duke's longtime ruling triumvirate - President William Preston Few, Vice President Robert Lee Flowers and Dean Wannamaker - to adjust themselves to running a big university instead of a small college. Trinity College was governed by a board of trustees two-thirds of whom were elected by Methodist church conferences, one-third by alumni. When in 1924 the late Tobaccoman...
Jezebel (by Owen Davis; produced by Guthrie McClintic). When in 1853 Miss Julie Kendrick (Miriam Hopkins) returns to her Twin Oaks plantation in Louisiana, after three years gallivanting in Europe, her supreme purpose is to wed her childhood sweetheart. Cousin Preston Kendrick (Reed Brown Jr.). Humiliated when she finds that, tired of waiting, he has already married a demure Yankee girl, Miss Julie behaves without regard for decency or decorum. She inveigles a young hot-head named Buck Buckner into picking a quarrel with Preston, hoping that they will duel and that Preston will be pinked. Instead, Preston...
...convenient yellow fever epidemic enables Miss Julie to contest this rude apostrophe before the end of Jezebel. Preston falls ill and blubbers about her in delirium. His wife is ready to accompany him to a quarantine island, from which no visitor returns alive, but it is Miss Julie who shuffles tragically along beside Preston's litter on its way to the lazaretto while her '"niggers" sing sad spirituals...
...tardy adaptation of Kenyon Nicholson's famed play The Barker, directed by Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade, Berkeley Square) and designed to re-establish the vanished prestige of Actress Clara Bow. She is Lou, hardboiled dancer in a carnival, who, to oblige the mistress of the proprietor (Preston Foster), makes advances to his callow son (Richard Cromwell), ends by marrying...