It Is the Law is a 1924 American silent mystery film directed by J.
Gordon Edwards and starring Arthur Hohl, Herbert Heyes, and Mona Palma.
It is a film adaptation of the 1922 Broadway play of the same name by
Elmer Rice. The film depicts the story of Ruth Allen (Palma), who
marries Justin Victor (Heyes) instead of competing suitor Albert
Woodruff (Hohl). Seeking revenge, Woodruff fakes his death by killing a
drifter who resembles him, and frames Victor for the murder. After
Victor goes to prison, Woodruff renews his courtship of Allen using an
assumed identity, but she sees through his disguise. When Victor gets
out of prison, he kills Woodruff, and goes free because he cannot be
convicted twice for the same crime. This was the final film for director
Edwards and was one of the last motion pictures produced at Fox Film's
New York studio. Like many of Fox's early works, it was probably lost
in the 1937 Fox vault fire.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Is_the_Law>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1776:
Thomas Paine (portrait shown) published the first in a series
of pamphlets entitled The American Crisis, opening with the line: "These
are the times that try men's souls."
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Crisis>
1941:
Second World War: six Italian Royal Navy divers on manned
torpedoes detonated limpet mines on Royal Navy ships, disabling two
vessels.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Alexandria_%281941%29>
1984:
China and the United Kingdom signed the Sino-British Joint
Declaration, agreeing to the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to
China on 1 July 1997.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration>
2013:
The European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory was
launched, with the goal of constructing the largest and most precise
star catalogue ever made.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_%28spacecraft%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
scut:
1. (obsolete) A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in
a hunt.
2. A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
3. (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the
vulva. […]
4. (chiefly Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person. […]
5. (also attributively) Distasteful work; drudgery; specifically
(medicine, slang) some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical
student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scut>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to
more people than a thousand rallies.
--Phil Ochs
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Phil_Ochs>