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.

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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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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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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