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When Antony, a rich, chattering but intelligent expatriate, discovers Victoria, she finds him disturbingly attractive. Antony is happily married, tells her all about his wife, Fontana. Antony falls in love with her, and her allegiance to Sorrel begins to waver. When Sorrel makes senile love to her, when the colony breaks up in mutual recrimination, Victoria in despair debauches herself with one man after another, but never with Antony. Antony leaves for the U. S. on business. Victoria discovers she is pregnant, makes herself ill by overdoses of pills. Fontana comes to find her, is taking her to a hospital...
...tall, teacherish shamrock waver from Dublin did not rise to oppose the entry of Russia. He endorsed it but rose to champion the idea that the few small nations still opposed should be invited to air their views in open assembly. Shaking a bony finger at his pet aversion, British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, and at M. Barthou, the Free State's de Valera cried: "The whole question of procedure should be properly considered, instead of in hotel rooms. . . . What is it reasonable for Russia to expect? She naturally wants to assure herself before applying for membership that...
...Buchanan Richardson Sr., assistant adjutant of the Third Corps Area. Near Ville Savage, France one August day in 1918, as a major in command of the 306th machine gun battalion, he was covering a charge by the 308th Infantry. Suddenly he saw one company, led by an inexperienced commander, waver and fall back under the enemy's fire. "With great gallantry and utmost disregard of personal danger" Major Richardson leaped forward, rallied the faltering company, led it through bursting shell to victory. Major Richardson received the Distinguished Service Cross, the French Legion of Honor, the Victory Medal and three...
...through her fiance and the Honolulu manager of her father's business. When Banker Bradford becomes suspicious and recalls his manager from Honolulu, there are altercations in a speakeasy and mysterious stirrings in the Bradford house. Arlene turns up dead in the garage. The newshawk's loyalties waver between his paper and Arlene's half-sister (Margaret Lindsay) whom he loves. A free-for-all chase leads to more mystery. Who sent the spurious telegram? Who threw Jake Bello into the bay? What about the sinister butler, the yacht Nowishn and Arthur Burchard to whom Arlene willed...
Adroitly in this sequence Author Ben Hecht and Director Roy Del Ruth let the audience's sympathies waver between the honest railman and the honest officer. Yet when the case is broken by newshawks and the picture moves to its routine end, everyone appears to have forgotten the policeman, last seen in his cell. Good shot: Toler losing his best piece of evidence, in the Police Commissioner's office...