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...Jade God. When John Millicent stole a jade figurine out of a Hindoo temple, its baleful influence followed him to Sussex where, one evening, he was discovered lying across his desk, his throat slit. The figurine had disappeared as well as a Malay kriss which he used for a paper weight. Then Jack Derrick, who loved daughter Jean Millicent, set out to find the murderer of her father. During the process people peered through doors and curtains, a wall panel opened emitting smoke and a greenish glow, girls shrieked, the figurine shone and spoke in the darkness. Even the portrait...
...queer quirk in the whole situation was that Japan, which for months has stubbornly kept an interventionary force in Shantung, disregarding incessant Nationalist howls of protest, suddenly came to terms last week with the shaky and harassed Nationalist Government and entered into a signed agreement to withdraw her slit-eyed marines by June 1. It is common knowledge that Japan has financed and favored Marshal Chang, the captor of Chefoo, but it would be news indeed if the Imperial Government con- siders Chang already strong enough to see that Japanese interests and colonists in Shantung come to no harm during...
...lives in a "dandy little Italian-villa-style bungalow with two bathrooms . . . a slit in the wall for the disposal of safety razor blades . . . garbage incinerator . . . electric washing machine...
...steel rod in one hand and a broken bottle in the other. I brained the first man near me, slashed the throat of the second one with the broken bottle and laid about with the steel rod. My aim was good. I stretched the other two out and then slit their throats. . . . After that I did a dash for the underbrush. . . . By this time the rest of the bandits began shooting. . . . I never dared to stop for a single moment. . . . I had a pretty good idea of the country and I made for Cuernavaca. I got there...
...West" and the current Metropolitan attraction, Richard Dix in "The Gay Defender". Be it remarked immediately that they did these things better with the help of Mary Pickford's husband. Certainly there are enough important Latins in Hollywood to keep Mr. Dix, the American of them all, out of slit Spanish trousers and Mexican fandangos. He is pre-eminently a home boy and should be discouraged in any more attempts to hit for Fairbanks. The film as casual amusement is pleasing enough. Thelma Todd is good to look upon and seems slightly more than beautiful. Additional fact of striking import...