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...Philandering son of a wealthy business man Rod La Rocque is just a trifle moist. As an exemplar of the fine art of seduction he leaves much to be desired, and the objects of his villiany, Barbara Stanwyck and Betty Bronson do not add anything in the way of merit to a thoroughly poor production. If Betty Bronson in particular could have forseen her future she would have stopped while the public was still applauding "Peter...
...door of an ordinary hotel-apartment can be locked from the outside so that the person inside cannot get out. Good and Evil, shut up there, wait discovery by the law?Good personified by beautiful innocent Barbara Stanwyck, Evil by the bullet-riddled body of saturnine Rod La Rocque. There is really nothing the matter with The Locked Door except that it is very old. Its antiquity has stimulated Director George Fitzmaurice to invent, by way of disguise, some effective modern sets. Best shot: the floating cabaret outside the twelve-mile limit, peopled by police spies and surrounded by well...
...years tried to keep the ideas from public garbling is a precise, British-born lawyer named William Henry Meadowcroft, 76. Last week Secretary Meadowcroft was exasperated by reports that he had predicted 16? per lb.: the present low price of real rubber, as the price of golden-rod rubber.† Neither Inventor Edison nor anyone in his organization could guess yet at manufacturing costs or how many acres of goldenrod would produce a ton of rubber...
...walls of Eton chapel), so St. Mark's has its "cloister ball." Each evening after supper students swarm to the open cloister which bounds the fourth side of St. Mark's brick-and-timber quadrangle. A tennis ball is thrown across one of the iron tie-rods in the cloister roof, the object being to strike the succeeding tie-rod, catch the ball on the rebound. Historic are St. Marksmen who make a perfect score of 15 hits in 15 throws. Founded mainly with Joseph Burnett's money (vanilla, Deerfoot Farms), St. Mark...
Keith-Albee--Rod La Roque in "The Delightful Rogue". Viola Dana in person...