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...Life of Vergie Winters (RKO). Vergie Winters (Ann Hardingj is another of the cinema's unhappy heroines in the same boat as Madelon Claudet, Mary Lane in Only Yesterday and Ray Schmidt in Back Street. Her marathon of discontent starts when she is 20 and shows no sign of stopping when the picture ends with her release from jail, at 42. The man she loves, John Shadwell (John Boles) marries someone else, under the mistaken impression that Vergie has jilted him. Vergie gives birth to an illegitimate daughter named Joan. John and his rancid wife Laura (Helen Vinson) adopt...
...hard-bitten crew that hung around the Alaskan gold camps a generation ago, none was more celebrated than "Sweet Marie'' Schmidt. She did not pretend to be in the same class with Mollie Walsh, the Wonder Girl of White Pass Trail, who ran a beanery and was sworn to be as morally clean as the snow that fell on her tent. Sweet Marie was a dance hall girl and prettier than most. When she lifted her plaintive voice in song, she could coax more nuggets out of sourdoughs in one night than Deadeye Olga, Yukon Lucy or Moosehide...
...prospecting up the Yukon River. They took Sweet Marie along for company. Folks around Fort Yukon learned that they had made a fairly good strike. Then word came in that the prospectors had fallen to quarreling. Next thing heard was that Tom Jensen had killed Adams, Holmberg and the Schmidt woman and run off with a poke worth some...
What the Government could do with "Blueberry Tom," the dog musher, if it was indeed he, remained a problem. The body of neither Frank Adams nor John Holmberg has ever been found to provide a corpus delicti for a murder charge. Some Indians buried Sweet Marie Schmidt in a sandy grave, but a flood came and washed her body away long...
...going on on the Continent. That is quite untrue. Commander Locker-Lampson has done a great service to Sir Oswald Mosley by the mere fact that this bill was brought in and by the advertisement thus given him. . . . Bill Smith of England is a very different person from August Schmidt of Germany. He won't let anybody walk over him, either in peace or in war." Not one of the 615 members of the House of Commons voted to bring in frightened Commander Locker-Lampson's bill...