Word: unconvincingness
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The Finger Points (First National). Based on last summer's murder of Alfred "Jake" Lingle, racketeer-reporter for the Chicago Tribune, this picture presents Richard Barthelmess as a cool but callow newshawk who grows rich by blackmailing gangsters. Disappointed in the rewards consequent upon his first scoop, the reporter offers...
Fortunately the "beautiful love romance" brings in its train a series of excellent "shots" of native villages in a frenzy of "juju" madness, fleeting glimpses of horrible tortures, and medicine-men dancing madly to the original Jungle Band. Otherwise the erotic element is not as hot as its geographic position...
The story is unconvincing, the sets as laudable and there are not enough amusing moments in the picture to make a long trip to Loew's State worthwhile.
Stephen Graham has written some delightful literature and he has published some tolerable history. Because he tried to combine the two he did a most unconvincing job in "St. Vitus Day." It lacks the vitality of romance and the dramatic accuracy of history. Characters which have heretofore been symbols of...
The promising future for exchange scholarships presaged by recent developments has, perhaps, a wider significance than the broadening reaction on the individual. In an age of unconvincing anti-war pacts and armament reductions, nothing could aid more toward a peaceful understanding among nations than the intermingling of students in the...