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Show CROOK'S CAREER RIVALS MOVIES German Flim-Flam Artist' Made Daring Escapes But Lands in Jail BY FRANK E. MASOS International Scvts Service surr Correspondent. i.l.li.J ,u. o. f uuu 'iiinm i two-reel comic with the regular old I movie 'hokum" of Charlie Chaplin , and Doug Fairbanks makes up the recent experience of Richard Dennor-hack. Dennor-hack. tiermany'p newest scnuation In comedy, criminality and con famf. The film opens with Richard making mak-ing a reprulutlon style bow In the Bmart uniform of a Prussian officer decoruted with the necessary Iron cross and black-and-white orders. After making a tour of WVst Germany reciting re-citing a monologue of fictitious experiences experi-ences as a prisoner of war In far-off; India, which made tender-hearted Germans who had never seen India' weep copious tears and open their , hearts and pocketbook string. Richard Rich-ard landed In Dortmund one day during a general strike. POS1 l IS -i i Etl I IGENT With an air of profound secrecy j he took the proprietor of Dortmund' largest hotel into his confidence and disclosed that he was a "secret agent of the German government." Furthermore Fur-thermore he had come to Dortmund to arrange for the Immediate deportation of all male between eighteen and t lilrt v.flvi ii I n nt SkWP hnCAUP the French were expected within a few days to occupy the Ruhr. The hotel proprietor hastened to accommodate ac-commodate his Important guest with a good dinner and the hostelry's best wine, but he also spread the news that a wholesale deportation of the masculine mascu-line sex was contemplated- In twenty twen-ty minutes nearly every man In Dortmund Dort-mund was either packing his luggage or devising a hiding place to escape the deportation. Within thirty minutes min-utes the military authorities had dispatched dis-patched a patrol to Investigate, the secret agen'. The patrol officer took one look at his nibs the "government agent," and ordered him detained under un-der arest In his room on the fourth floor of the hotel. E60APE i hi t:it." The next morning the military guard posted before the hotel room, after a period of auspicious quiet, opened the door and found the prisoner had disappeared. A bedsheet tied to the bed revealed nn improvised ladder The guard rushed to the window and peering ov er the edge he saw that our hero was d.nigling on a level with the second story window from his rope of twisted, knotted blankets, towels, bed sheets and dresser scarfs. The green-clad Sicherheits-guard flashed out his bayonet and hacked at the towel across the window until It broke under The prisoner's weight. Dick landed with a thump in the court below. When he regained consciousness conscious-ness In the hospital he found that he had broken a leg and his right arm. Pause while we change reels and two months pass. ! in SCENE sun i - Scene- The hospital Herr Donner- hack Informs the patients. Internes and guards at the hospital that he has j had some little practice in magic A ! pack of cards, please' He was very I dexterous In removing the ace of hearts from the coiffure of the ward i nurse, and everyone applauded his ; proposition to change their watches ! Into live, singing canary birds Dick collected the watches and not only disappeared into the next room but I dlsapepared for good, the watches i with him Several months later the notice of Muenster, on the lookout for the Communist Com-munist leader Levlcn, who was wanted j believed that thev had found I-evlen I in the person of Richard Donnerhack. Donnerhack didn't care to be put through the third degree and succes-s. I fully escaped despite a shower of shots. ; The next scene Is Uerlln, where a WO-1 WO-1 man betrayed him accusing him be-i be-i fore the police of being a marriage swindler. Medical olficers at the trial In Berlin's Ber-lin's Criminal court testified that the! j prisoner was of inferior mentality. In consequence of which, according to the Berliner Tageblatt, the court reduced the sentence for his combined and assorted misdemeanors to ihre years' imprLsonmenU ' r.ipirr--- |