THE PICTURES.
The butt of the niggers, and the jest of the whites, '■ was the shifty-eyed vagrant who stood on the block to be sold at auction. A white man, a human soul, for sale, and tbe highest and only bid xvas one dollar. A girl s bid, at that, and yet she only bought him out of pity. She didn’t know that lie would become her husband. Warren Kerrigan, as the despairing young laxvyer who has been brought to the depths through drink, gives one of the finest impersonations of his career in “One Dollar Bid,’’ his latest Paralta feature. The picture fur-, nishes an entertaining romance with plenty of heart interest, and though the subject seems improbable, yet, there is still in force in Kentucky a law xvhereunder a man with no visible means of support can be _ solely into servitude for a year. Lois Wilson plays the girl admirably and with
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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8362, 28 July 1920, Page 3
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