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Death came to Author Jesse Lynch Williams last September. He left this book, a quietly satirical study of religious dogmatism. Greatly daring, Author Williams has made his dogmatist-villain a woman, and a beauty...
...humorous, faulty. The detective is no Sherlock Holmes but a hard-working policeman who has to satisfy the district attorney, then out of sympathy and professional pride helps Miss Bell demolish the case he has made. But there is a murderer. If it were not for Author Rinehart, the villain might never have been discovered...
...Hunter. Critic Irene Thirer of the New York Daily News referred to this picture as a "barkie," which is one way of saying that its most startling sound effects are produced by a dog?famed Rin Tin Tin. He helps to apprehend a villain, the unscrupulous manager of a tropical rubber plantation (John Loder), and is thereby a great satisfaction to the comely heiress who, among other things, has been willed the plantation. In the course of the story Charles Delaney becomes variously but strongly attached to both girl...
...that Rin Tin Tin probably "owes everything to the little wife." He lives in a wire training camp adjacent to the fine house in Beverly Hills that has been built out of his earnings. He has never bitten anybody. When, in front of the camera, he springs at a villain, he somehow avoids scratching with his big teeth the throat which he clamps between his jaws with an appearance of ferocity. Despite his unfailing skill at apprehending the villain on the screen, Rin Tin Tin, asleep a few feet away, offered no resistance when robbers burgled Duncan's home last...
Though Author E. M. Delafield expressly states in a foreword that this book is not intended as propaganda against the Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics will find little aid and comfort in it. Most of the characters are Catholic and are shown in a kindly light, but the villain of the piece is also the most faithful churchman. The tragedy hinges on the Catholic rules for marriage, against divorce...