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...hearts of gold, the moral of this film will undoubtedly appeal. A simple boarding school girl assists a criminal to escape from San Quentin prison by a pleasantly incredible device; drawn into his underworld life, she finally regenerates him with her love. On the face of it such a yarn seems almost impossibly cinemesque. Colleen Moore manages to make it plausible in spots...
...personally conducted tour of inspection. A bad old villain chases her through a fearful storm to a deserted cabin. The hero rescues her, but she returns to fox-trotting. There is still the ranchman's daughter. Marjorie Daw, Lois Wilson, Richard Dix and Noah Beery wind this yarn into a skein of considerable entertainment...
...Next Room. Burton Egbert Stevenson is probably best known for his colossus among anthologies?The Home Book of Verse. Yet once he wrote a mystery yarn called The Boule Cabinet. Eleanor Robson (Mrs. August) Belmont saw in it another who-killed-him drama and (in collaboration with Harriet Ford) managed the transposition. One will surmise that a mystery melodrama must be exceptionally good to warrant production after The Thirteenth Chair, The Bat and their descending dynasty. In the Next Room is exceptionally good. It states its problem, defies the spectator to solve it, maintains that defiance to the very closing...
...secreted bv Byzantine emperors in the very belly of Constantinople-a gang of international cutthroats who are constantly sandbagging the legitimate treasure-seekers-gypsy brigands versus Turkish assassins - a spitfire gypsy lass equally ready with kiss or knife- these are some of the ingredients of as rattlingly energetic a yarn of adventure as any in some time...
...second writing. When he started to write a Rabelaisian fantasy in Fantazius Mallare he was only adolescent in his pornography and was consequently affected. His last book, a detective story, The Florentine Dagger, he claims to have written in ten hours. It's not a bad yarn. I am told, however, that, dictating as rapidly as one is able, it would scarcely be physically possible to accomplish this feat. I once dictated ten thousand words of a story in a week-end and have never been the same since. However, Ben Hecht's versatility and his energy are astounding! That...