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Everything would have gone well with the Invisible Man if the drug which made him invisible had not also made him insane; and so, after becoming a wrecker of trains and a murderer, he is finally shot dead in his tracks as he emerges from a barn into a virgin coat of newly fallen snow...
Andes-Consolidated Virginia Mining Co. lately bought an old house for $150, last week set unemployed miners to wreck it for firewood. One afternoon a wrecker rushed to the superintendent of the mine carrying a hunk of rock. It was silver ore, assaying $500 a ton. Hastily a small shaft was driven into the ground nearby; mining engineers rushed from San Francisco. The discovery of a "lost bonanza" was confirmed. Once more Virginia City was a boom town. Piute squaws came down out of the hills. Divorcees in fur coats motored over from Reno. But no lucky prospector stood...
STEVENSON (Robert Louis) The Wrecker...
...consoles herself with a plateful of cinnamon buns -make Seed at times a convincing as well as mildly entertaining homily. John Boles, whose previous roles have included opportunities for barytone singing, maintains a placid demeanor as Bart Carter. Genevieve Tobin, who has become recognized as the most civilized home-wrecker of the talkies, sparkles pleasantly as Mildred. It's a Wise Child (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the minor stage contributions of the late David Belasco (see p. 28) was this obstetrical little farce, fragile and inoffensive, which deals glibly with a complicated case of mistaken pregnancy. As cinema...
Campagna. Potent Manhattan Builder & Wrecker Anthony Campagna (he wrecked the $6,000,000 Clark Mansion on Fifth Avenue) was created a count by Italy's King Yittorio Emanuele...