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...Snitcher-snatcher Gonzaga may secure bound copies of TIME, Vol. IX (Jan.-June 1927) and Vol. X (July-Dec. 1927) at $5 each, by writing to TIME, Penton Building, Cleveland, Ohio...
Richard Arlen, as the abducted officer, is sufficient for the part, and William Powell plays well the half-comedy role of hostile sheik and would-be bride-snatcher. The comedy is administered by two Americans with a movie camera, but Miss Daniels's antics dominate every episode. Much sword-play, swinging from chandeliers and tapestries, plus the movie machinery dispute the ultimate Bedouin attack, as the masculine hero engages a firing-squad. The picture is well produced and the photography is excellent, and the hero-heroine combines a mild Valentino and Fairbanks quite successfully...
...banners, and since Editor Mencken possesses, like most successful Americans, a flair for slapstick showmanship, it may be doubted that the American Mercury is now read for idle-minded amusement by sheepish culture-hunters less than it is read with deep attention by serious people. The half-baked phrase-snatcher on whose lips "babbitt" and "moron" are now most often heard must infuriate Mr. Mencken while he continues to get out the most provocative review...
...worst and visited the Zoological Gardens last week. There, in a caged watertank, lay 24 feet and 352 pounds of mottled horror. Hunters had stalked the jungle for nine months. Wary of their prey they had laid a great bait. At last he had come, eunectes murinus, the snatcher, coiling dangerously out of a dark stream. They took him after he had gorged and lay inert. Natives clustered about chattering, "Sucuri! Sucuri!" (local term for a reptile). They dreaded the monster as do all hunters save immediately after its meal, which occurs only about four times yearly...
...More Women. The audience could only mutter; "There are no such animals," and take its pleasure in Actor Charles Bickford's tacit agreement. He is supposed to be a rufous Wyoming body-snatcher who has never missed his snatch, even including a warm Manhattan divorcee who strolls into Cody dressed for Newport. Something about her is supposed to purify his ardor; he has to return from her bedroom saying he "wouldn't do such." The bedroom is in a dude lodge belonging to two embittered Manhattan males with a shingle over their door, "Damn the Women...