We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
One of the better deliberate deceptions was the Bernie-Winchell opus. The band leader tries to introduce an unknown warbler and the columnist stamps her counterfeit. The orchestra leader then plants her as a stage-struck daughter of a French consul. The columnist falls for the hoax and boosts her for a tryout, overcoming many obstacles before he finally lands her on the air the night before she is scheduled to appear on his enemy's program.
Burned up, the columnist then has the orchestra leader kidnapped and believing he is to be rubbed out the baton wielder does a little knee-knocking before he is told that it is merely tit-for-tat.
Noble Deceptions
Now comes that never-failing formula for tears, the deliberately noble deception, probably at its best in movies like Marked Woman, hostess of a clip joint, deceiving her sister as to her real occupation that the girl might finish college, unashamed.
Another is the hero who goes blind, a condition he tries to hide with painstaking rehearsals in his study. His fiancee calls. He makes a misstep that gives him away and upon learning the truth she insists on standing by him, a sacrifice he tries manfully but unsuccessfully to avert. And the countless mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters cooking up fibs that conceal noble sacrifices.
One of the later and more successful noble deceptions was the dizzy wife who wanted to help her lawyer-husband. He needed business and a reputation. So she confessed to a murder with which she had nothing to do, figuring that he would be smart enough to get her off and his success would be assured; but clearing her wasn't as easy as she thought,
Unwitting and Implied Deception
First, there's the ironic twist resulting in a misunderstood hero or heroine moving for torturous months under a cloud of suspicion and distrust. The Rise and Fall of Susan Lenox, played by Garbo, the most misunderstood woman on the screen.
It's both unwitting and implied deception when hero and heroine mistake each other for thieves ; the mistake