A hundred million movie-goers must be right... (1938)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




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.

prolonged and dragged out and extended with the two becoming more and more suspicious of each other until finally a real robbery reveals their true identities. Reams of scripting are devoted to cactus country heroes falsely accused of murder, holding up the stage or stealing cattle, the athlete wrongly accused of throwing the game to the gamblers. One of the better variations of unwitting deception is the beautiful heroine slowly dying of radium poisoning. She becomes news. A reporter builds her case into a nine-day wonder. Later, discovering that she is as healthy as himself and fearing that he will lose his job for putting his newspaper on a spot he takes a sock at her to produce a fever. The deliberate double deception: She was a movie star, idling incognito in Paris, he an impoverished Marquis, also incog and charmingly persistent. But when he stirred crepes suzettes to chamber music, causing the cook to resign, and gallantly replaced her to become the only man in the star's menage, his persistence became anything but charming. However, when she learned he was a Marquis all was forgiven. Unwitting double deception becomes deliberate : A needle trades Cinderella fitting travel garb to a society cat while a mere eight hundred guests in the ballroom drink to the event, a salesman from a travel agency delivering steamship tickets to her absentminded pater at the bar. Later pater introduces the salesman to Cindy. Each thinks the other of the smart set and a bit too ultra for better acquaintance yet they further the deception. Then good-bye and a session of resigned mooning over the great social chasm separating them ; a mischievous brother tricking them together; near exposure by another brother, a movie usher; more deception by Cindy's family to give her a "background," and the inevitable discovery that their worlds turn on the same axis. The Complete Deception The complete deception is just another way of saying that nobody knows whodunit or who-stole-it, or the mystery story, the formula that keeps Sherlock Holmes, Perry Mason, Ellery Queen, Philo Vance, Mr.