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...acted by Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson and Lon Chaney in 1919. Now, remade as a talkie, it is an anomalous parable, more confusing than inspiring. Certain vicious characters led by a wretched John Madison (Chester Morris) find an old faith-healer (Hobart Bosworth) practicing his innocent seances in a sea-coast village. They form an adroit plan to exploit his doddering abilities. First they procure a knowing minx (Sylvia Sidney) to take care of the faith-healer. Then they have a contortionist named "Froggy" (John Wray) drag himself about on his haunches and unwrap when the faith-healer looks...
Their earth inductor compass had fits of running wild, their radio had become disabled, they were fast running out of gasoline-when suddenly at 3 a. m. they saw the sea-coast and the flicker of a lighthouse beacon beneath them. That was the moment when Commander Byrd scribbled: "We are going to land." It was safer to drop into the sea than to crash into unyielding, un known, fog-blanketed land, he decided...
Cast up by the Sea?a Sea-Coast Melodrama of the days when thirty cents bought an orchestra chair and not merely the amusement tax on a seat in row ZZ; The Soul Call?an up-to-date Piffle Play in Which a Man and a Woman, Both Trying to Find Themselves Find One Another; Dead Men's Gold?a film of the great Nevada Deserts in which Red-Blooded, Abie-Bodied Men and Women a hundred per cent. American live and love among the cactus and chaparral; Oroastus?a Greek Tragedy as presented by the senior class in classics...
Many buildings collapsed at Sarajevo (Bosnia) and the sea-coast towns of Cattaro and Ragusa ( Dalmatia). A tobacco factory was destroyed at Mostar (Herzegovina). No reports have been received as to the number of lives lost...
...time she mitigates the rigor of this decree by providing a restricted sea-lane which may be used by American passenger vessels with impunity. This restriction constitutes, to be sure, a decided handicap; but one can only ask: "What regard has the British Admiralty shown, during the course of the war, for the rights or convenience of Americans on the seas? One naturally feels prompted to ask further: "If the loss of American lives, resulting from our insistence on entering the war-zone established around the sea-coast of the Entente Powers, constitutes a casus belli...