The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-06
GERMAN CROOKS OPERATIONS RIVAL
 THE MOVIE COMICS
By FRANK E. MASON, International News Service Staff Cor
 respondent.


 Berlin, Nov. 5. - A good thriller movie "hokum'' of Charlie Chaplin and Doug Fairbanks makes Up the recent experience of Richard Donner- back, Germany's newest sensation in comedy, criminality and con games.
 The film opens with Richard mak- ing a regulation style bow in the smart uniform of a Pruss:an officer decorated with the necessary iron cross and black-and-white orders After making a tour of West Germany reciting a monologue of fictitious ex- perienceS 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 strings, Rich ard landed in Dortmund one day dur i ing a general strike.
 Posed as Secret Agent With an air of profound secrecy he | took the proprietor of Dortmund's S largest hotel into his confidence and disclosed that he was a secret agent | of the German government" Fur | thermore he had come to Dortmund to arrange for the immediate deport- | ation of all males between IS and 35 years of age, because the French were | expected within a few days to occupy the Ruhr.
 The hotel proprietor hastened to accommodate his important guest with good dinner and the hostelry's $ | news that a wholesale deportation of the masculine sex was contemplated. In 20 minutes nearly every man in Dortmund was either packing his lug gage or deviSinS a hiding place to es- cape the deportation. Within 30 nin- utes the military authorities had dis 1 patched a patrol to investigate the secret agent. The patrol officer took | one look at his nibs the "Government agent and ordered him detained un- der arrest in his room on the fourth | floor of the hotel.
 Escape "E1ivver." | The next morning the military guard posted before the hotel room, after period of suspicious quiet opened the door and found the pris- orer had disappeared. A bedsheet ladder The guard rushed to the window and peering over the edge he saw that our hero was dangling on a level with the second story window
 blankets, towels, bed sheets and | dresser Scarfs
 The green-clad Sfcherheits-g guard
 flashed out his bayonet and hacked at
 broke under the prisoners weight Dick landed with a thump in the
 court below. When he regained con- seriousness in the hosDitA he found rigbt rha5 he hen had broksn a leg and his ,, Pause while we change reels and
 two months pass.
 The Scene Shifts. Scene: The hospital. Herr Don-
 ne1 ok informs the patients, internes ana guards at the hospital that he
 has had some little practise in magic
 A pack of cards, pleasei He was very dexterous in removing the ace oi hearts from the coiffure of the ward nurse, and everyone applauded his , proposition to change their watches
 into live, singing canary birds. Dick collected the watches and not only d1sa ppeared into the next room bu
 disappeared for good, the watche.
 with him.
 $ Several months later the police O. l Muenster. on the lookout for the Com muniSt leader Levien, who was want
 ed, believed that they had found Le : vien in the person of Richard Don | nerback. Donnerback didn't care tt
 be put through the third degree ant , successfully escaped despite shower
 of bullets The next scene is Berlin 8 where a woman betrayed him-ac T cusing him before the police of being ! a marriage swind1er.
 :, Medical officers at the trial in Der : lin's Criminal Court testified that thu . prisoner was of inferior mentality, il a consequence of which, according tt the Berliner Tageblatt. the court re
 duced the sentence for his combined Jhnd assorted misdemeanors te thre
 years innnrisnnnaAnt