Word: roguish
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...choose between going to the South Seas and remaining with his sweetheart (Frances Torchiana), both families being longtime friends. Throughout this tale of youthful self-sacrifice are interpolated visitors to the estaminet: a pompous ferryboat commander who is touchy on the subject of his wife's fidelity; the roguish, lovable saloonkeeper; able Guy Kibbee (late mortuary supply salesman of Torch Song) who is in love with Miss Torchiana. Marseilles is not a particularly strong play, but it is worth seeing...
Made In France may be considered as over-roguish, but no worse than the average biological farce. Miss De Putti's mumming, more enthusiastic than impressive, runs to posturing, comic mispronunciations, acrobatics...
...Robert A. Carter, 32, intriguing fictionist, became managing editor of John B. Kelly's air-fiction magazine Wings. He "wrote" good stories which Mr. Kelly gladly published. But one was a word-for-word steal from another "air" magazine, Air Trails, whose publisher complained. Last week roguish Mr. Carter was in jail for confessed fraud...
Hungarian Rhapsody (UFA). This German picture contains no dialog but its fiddles playing Magyar melodies are well recorded. Manufactured for the U. S. box office and released through Paramount, it tells about a middle-class girl who sacrifices herself for an impoverished and roguish nobleman because she respects his class. Stock characters of continental drama photographed with fine craftsmanship against their native background seem no more credible than in Hollywood pictures where this background has been artificially reproduced...
These things and many another happened during the first minute after 7 p.m., when a roguish sixty-second cyclone struck London, killed none, injured...