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...hackneyed and rather melodramatic situation, providing Norma Shearer with her chance to be a melting ingenue and Adolphe Menjou with an opportunity to be a hero for once-while remaining a man-about-town. The Goldfish. Constance Talmadge scampers through the picture in her best harum-scarum vein. She traces with not a little sly subtlety the development of the Coney Island piano-pounder who uses one husband after another to advance her social and financial status, till she finally returns to her initial song-plugging spouse, still the same devoted little heart, but this time with a broad...
...becomes hard to guess at what he really aims and hard to believe that he himself knows at what he aims. . . . He shows a vein of intense personal hostility to the Prime Minister, whose quieter but galling gibes?never omitted ?had challenged a retort...
...Moral Sinner. This screen version of Leah Kleschna is likely to be viewed as a deliberately unfriendly act by Mr. William A. Brady, since his stage revival of this famed crook drama of 20 years ago is to be presented soon. It is not in the modern mystery vein of underworld plays, the only mystery being why the producers, after having bought the play for its previous standing and exploitation value, changed the name. The only explanation is that paradoxical titles are now in vogue on the screen, following the example of Playwright Shipman on the stage. Shipman might have...
...heard with an occasional growl from the Man. Hysterical laughter, then reconciliation and all is again serene, as the splendor of the Moon shines forth in its calm majesty. The Lady in the Moon again makes love, and although the Man protests it is in a more pleasant vein...
...Graham of the Washington University Medical School (St. Louis) have succeeded in finding a substance which can be satisfactorily introduced into the gall-bladder and which permits X-ray photography of the organ later. The chemical name of the substance is calcium tetrabromphenolphthalein. The drug is injected into a vein. Three hours after the injection it begins to appear in the bile which collects in the gallbladder. Strangely enough, better photographs have been obtained from normal gallbladders than from those which are diseased, but this in itself serves as a means of diagnosis...