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...find an old faith-healer (Hobart Bosworth) practicing his innocent seances in a sea-coast village. They form an adroit plan to exploit his doddering abilities. First they procure a knowing minx (Sylvia Sidney) to take care of the faith-healer. Then they have a contortionist named "Froggy" (John Wray) drag himself about on his haunches and unwrap when the faith-healer looks at heaven. To their dismay, the faith-healer works other and less specious miracles. In the end, instead of absconding with moneys they have collected from his patients, they become converted. They decide to stay with...
...greater degree, Lupe Velez, are currently enjoying a profitable association with Florenz Ziegfeld in his ornamental Hot-cha! An old leading man of Miss Moran's, Lawrence Gray, lent a dignified if uncertain grace to The Laugh Parade about the same time that Fay Wray starred in a short engagement of her husband's strange musical mixture, Nikki. Life Begins (by Mary McDougal Axelson; Joseph Santley, producer). When Vina Delmar's Bad Girl was dramatized last season it contained one brief scene in which a childbirth was indicated by means of a shadowgraph. At the time this...
First Camelot tournament in Manhattan, sponsored by expert Camelotist Anne Morgan, was played last week at the clubhouse of the American Women's Association, refereed by onetime Chess Champion Jose Capablanca, won by a Miss Elizabeth Wray. Named, for no particular reason, after King Arthur's hometown, Camelot was invented three years ago by George Swinnerton Parker, head of Parker Bros. of Salem, Mass., who manufacture more games than anyone else in the U.S. Camelot is played with pieces resembling pawn chessmen on an irregularly checkered board. It comes in "editions" of which Parker Bros. say they have...
...blood-thirsty colonel; an aged, blind embezzling financier?Colman enjoys a badman's holiday. He plots with his confreres to steal the funds which the embezzling financier has secreted on the premises. When he has done so, he gives most of the money away to a tattered virgin (Fay Wray) who describes herself as a "desert Cinderella" and seems to have gotten into the picture when no one was looking. The Unholy Garden has the defect of implausibility but it is not wholly stupid. Good shot: Colman reproving an Algerian servitor who licks his chops when announcing that a lady...
With a new faculty committee to pass on the eligibility of players and a new coach (Harvey Harman, replacing Lud Wray), Penn came up against one of the strongest teams in the West-Wisconsin, which had beaten Purdue the week before. Wisconsin made two touchdowns but Penn's 204-lb. fullback, Carl Perina, made one also and his teammates made three more. Penn 27, Wisconsin...