Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gorilla, by Ralph Spence, depends chiefly on the scenery. Trapdoors revolve and clatter, arms protrude from solid stone, panels slide and lights go black and green. While their surroundings are thus behaving queerly, the company unfolds a tale of horrid humors. It seems that the Gorilla was a monstrous criminal who advertised his criming and then fulfilled his promises. Murders and whatnot were his pastime. On this particular evening, he operates in the livingroom, the garage and the cellar of the Stevens mansion. A detailed report of the activity would sound very much like a 9-year-old child...
Zander the Great. A lovely nurse girl trying to find among Arizona badmen the father of her tiny ward is the kernel of this tale. It is fed forth with all the usual garnishings of hard riding, sheriffs and a sand storm. Early pictures of the nurse girl struggling to escape from an orphanage had little bearing on the general scheme but were nevertheless the most interesting. Marion Davies is starred and gives an extraordinarily good performance at first, that thins down to the close-up of a lovely maiden type of playing...
...POOR NUT-An exaggerated college tale that wrings laughter for its very exaggerations...
Long contradictory despatches came daily from Sofia throughout the past week. They told a tale of arrests, shootings, more bombings, discoveries of incriminating Communist documents. There was an unbelievable amount of exaggeration which made the situation so hypertrophied that it looked like a veritable reign of terror, instituted by the Tsankoff Government. Indeed, Foreign Commissar Georg Tchitcherin, sitting at his desk in Moscow, was horrified to hear of the excesses committed at the orders of Premier Tsankoff and his Ministers...
WHITE CARGO?Tells its sombre tale of white men and black women together in the sandy sunshine of loneliest Africa...