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...July, 1822, is tossed a frail figure of perfections angelic rather than human. Its youthful, milk-white features are serene in apparent death. David Butternut, young and gigantic able seaman, trembles at the sight. Only a few hours before he has knocked dead a man who, though an arrant scoundrel, bore just such a seraphic countenance. Now remorseful and half afraid lest this be his victim's ghost, David kneels, chafes the seeming corpse's slender, blue-veined wrists, and quite disregarding the tempest, whispers long, soulful entreaties that the visitor return to life. At length the angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...forests brooding over the hellish intrigues of red-skinned desperadoes, the Northwest Mounted are pictured in the first heroic adventure of their notable history. The immediate cause of their appearance: the sad plight of Actress Renee Adoree, menaced by a well filmed circle of fire, by a loathsome Indian scoundrel. Actor Antonio Moreno, sergeant, rides over tl hills, through the fire. The audience heartily endorses his oncoming, because Actress Adoree deserves an elegant rescue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 26, 1926 | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

...your front cover, made it necessary for all the world that believe in justice and freedom to go to war. Of course the article on p. 13 was news, and all right, but why cause Americans, or at least one, to remember any more vividly that arch-rascal and scoundrel "Wilhelm Der Zweite" who felt that he was almost if not equal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 26, 1926 | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

...must have experienced much the same loss of faith as the chicken which hatched a duck egg, when he first beheld his motion picture child. In short the picture is just another of those periodic and unpleasantly intimate glimpses of crime, courtrooms and cops. A totally likable, but thoroughgoing scoundrel in the book is made into an unconscious crook in the screen version. The crowning movie touch, however, was a lurking dictaphone which displayed an amazing faculty for listening in on, and recording various bits of love making incriminating evidence...

Author: By H. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 6/1/1926 | See Source »

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