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ECCENTRICITIES OF
MR. DRINAN. The eccentricities of the Inte Mr. Albert Drinan, the rich miser tho Riviera, were described when the lawsuit concerning part of his fortune was heard be fore Mr. Justice McCardle in the King's Beach Division.
was asid to Mr. Drinan, who have lived on £200 a year, though his income was between £12,000 and £13,000, bequeathed £70,000 to the poor-boxen of the Metropolitan police courts.
The point at issue is whether about £100,0400 worth of Canadian Pacific Railway shares, now in the custody of the National Bank of Now York, belong to his estate or to that of the late Mr. Joe Halat. Mr. Schiller, K.C., for the public trustee, the plaintiff. na trustee and executor under Mr. Drinan'a will, alleged in opening the case that the stock powers of transfer of the share from Mr. Drinan to Mr. Haint were a forgery, or that if Mr. Drinan did sign them he could not appreciate what he was doing as he was suffering from senile dementia.
The defendant is Mrs. Haiat, the widow of Mr. Haint.
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TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1931.
CINEMA SCREENINGS.
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Von Starnberg has given us another master-place, unother outstanding example of the artistle heights that screen art can reach. He shows un that he is the only director who has element. | completely mastered that
He makes a slave of the microphone. he makes it catch voice infections that apparently were not created to comply with its demands, and we have real talking coming to us from the screen instead of atterances stilted by their regard for the stage manner of speaking.
no
"An American Tragedy" in a terrific picture....It is story about anyone, dealing only with things....that hav happened millions of times befure and will happen millions of Limes again, things that are not old and never will be new. It deals with a boy.... governed by ordinary human impulses, who drifts Into indulging them and Is engulfed by them. It la o straight repertorial film, pleading for aympathy, preaching no sermon.. but
an extraordinary presenting kuccession of events of which the sum
wholly im-. total spells tragedy of personal sort,
Von Sternberg makes no effort to
lle himself.
expreasca expresa
an authority, ..with Praizer. vividness, a compelling power greater then can be found in the pages of his book....With stark realism that is the very height of drama, he relates just what happens; and he in Indir. ferent to ita reception by us or Ita effects upon us.
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The court-room sequence, perhaps half the picture, is the outstanding dramatic triumph of the talkiu mechanism. Von Sternberg does not crente a trial for us. He reports ar ....Here the earnera cannot function In the chief medium of expression. and fur the first time von Sternbere Mr. John Taylor, British Vierges completely talkin, and does it Consul at Cannes, said he had with extraordinary brilliance. known Mr. Drinan sihre 1998. He keeps us in the court room for per. haps an hour....and ra adroitly does was then "perfectly normal and a
he cover his lapsen of time that when very good business man," and ask-
we leave the theatre we feel that we ed him (Mr. Taylor) to go for a
have been at the trial continuously tour round the world with him.
for the many days of its duration, Mr. Taylor continued:
Pichel, district attorney, Irving
Emmet! Cries B. Middleton and
TIC
dinlogus
In 1027 Mr. Drinan became ee centric. He frequently came to Corrigan, defence attorneys, do not se me about his health and was read lines, do not exprran worried about his securities. Hewriters. They read their mentalities themselves. Pichel'r told me that he had left all his and
to the jury is a forensi address masterpiece, in delivery and context worthy of a perounent place in
mone
mor boxes. poor
tb
the Metropolitan polien He also said he had
express
Rerrarities in a binck box, but record of great orations....Here we never saw the box.
have a trial that grips as, that keeps
Mr. Taylor said that Mr. Dri-us atfrred up, that never for a moment nan why "a miserable looking permits our attention to wander..... object."
Ilolmes holds our interest because He usually wore a pair
the story is about him. It is a drab, of grey annel trousers and a
negative sort of part as a weak bay វិIt seem: muttler round his neck. ed to have a persecution manin and whom fate pleka up and destroys, and then, undisturbed, passes on. I don't said his enemies were unknown know any other bay on the screen who persons who were following him could have humlled the part with the in the street and wanted to poison rare understanding that Holmes dis a per bim.
plays. Sylvin Sidney given Mr. Drinan
is distinguished by was a miser. and formance that
and Impressiveness, and complaints were received from sincerity boarding-house proprietors that Frances Dee is perfect in a part that needs her beauty and the charm of he would not pay his bills.
her personality. Questioned about stock powera The cast is a long one, and there which
to transfer raik purported
are no weak spots in it. way shares frum Mr. Drinan to an uttorney, Mr. Taylor said that he would not like to say that the signature was John Drinan's. He certainly should not have passed it as his signature. He had never heard Mr. Drinan mention the name Haint.
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Lamb on Wall Street," and also as Interesting acroplane episodes and the mad gardener in "The Windmill country scenes are contrasted with Man" has the role of Sir Gcorgo the society of London where much of Ascot. the action takes place.
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Gaumont-British talkie The picture is an adaption of the Street,"
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