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Show visiting her deserted apartment. Is struck by apparent evidences of refinement refine-ment and nt once is convinced that the woman, while not the actual slayer, can be traced through her personality as evidenced evi-denced by the furnishing of the apartment. apart-ment. Suspicion finally turns to Mary, and the later action deals with the development develop-ment and final springing of tills "personality" "per-sonality" trap In a home she had furnished fur-nished for the brother of the murder victim vic-tim she has married. The scenario is adapted from Joseph Gollomb's magazine story, "Hunt the Woman," and Tom R. Mills directed the picture. In the supporting cast are Walter Wal-ter Miller. Harry Davenport, Denton Vane, Walter Horton, Robert Galilard, Jane Jennings, James Costello, Grace Williams, Edward Klkas and Anne Brody. Unusual Theory in Drama at American fpHE employment of a girl's expression of personality, cultured and distinctive, distinc-tive, as revealed in her taste in furniture and apartment decorations, to fix on hnr a brutal murder, is the central thought in the Corinne Griffith picture, "A Girl at Bay," now showing at the American theater. This unusual theory in criminology crim-inology is finely worked out and gives the talented young star a role of unusual appeal. Miss Griffith, as Mary Blake, settlement settle-ment worker, awakes in her own apartment, apart-ment, blood-stained knife in hand and at her feet ihe body of a young judge she never had met before. Convinced of her own guilt, she seeks to avert suspicion by obtaining employment as secretary to the brother of the slain -man. The closest friend of her employer, in |