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...trap all ready for Emperor Haile Selassie waited to be sprung in case he should officially reject The Deal. It might then be eloquently said by Orator Laval that since Ethiopia had flouted and rejected "a peaceful solution conceived within the framework of the League," that affronted entity must turn the blade of Sanctions against Ethiopia and away from Italy in case Il Duce should accept the "good offices" of Britain and France within that framework. Into this trap last week the wily Ethiopian did not walk. Informally to correspondents His Majesty excoriated The Deal but he did not officially...
...fact is that many of the best appurtenances of detective stores have been lifted directly from Conan Doyle, to be used most effectively on the screen. There is the subtle trap inveigling the guilty man into betraying himself, the use of a dummy to draw fire from the villain's gun, the spiriting away of a threatened person under pretense of his death, and the complicated machine of destruction. In this picture the infernal device rivals the inventions of Rube Goldberg, for the ringing of a church bell--as innocent a phenomenon as you could hope to find--starts...
...himself up, Socialist Boss Léon Blum burst into an oration designed to show up Premier Laval as at heart a blackshirt despite his lifelong affectation of pure white ties & shirts. Thundered scrawny, droop-mustached Boss Blum at the Radical Socialists: "Are you going to fall into the trap which is being laid for you? Are you going to quail before the double pressure of street riots and bank panics? "What has the Government done to assure the defense of our liberties?" roared M. Blum. "There is an open and public conspiracy against our republican institutions! What...
...Sidney, naïve proprietress of a roadside restaurant, falls in love with a winning stranger (Alan Baxter) only to learn, when he begins discharging firearms, that he is Public Enemy No. A1. She is accused of aiding his escape, bullied into a false confession, sent to prison. To trap Baxter the G-men rig up an elaborate escape for Miss Sidney, shadow her every move. The infatuated public enemy manages to harass her while eluding his pursuers and robbing a football stadium, almost ruins her romance with Melvyn Douglas before he is shot. For cinemaddicts who are not ruffled...
...Roseau, Minn., Leon Plant, 65, indignantly refusing State and Federal relief, retired to keep house in a big, snug butter churn with a tight-fitting trap door (see cut), which he inherited four years ago from a former employer...