Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fatal Alibi. Two murder plays within a week (see above), both of which are commendable, is by way of being news on Broadway. The Fatal Alibi, from Agatha Christie's Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which ends with the narrator's last-chapter confession, is not as funny as Monkey, but more logical. Engaged to solve this crime is Actor Charles Laughton, who made this season's grim Payment Deferred almost too real. This time Mr. Laughton is cast as the famed French operative Hercule Poirot. His accent is good, his mumming of characteristic meticulousness. Either Author Christie or Reviser John...
Next day the number of Japanese guarding China's ex-Emperor was ostentatiously doubled. Thus the Japanese Government, whatever happens, had established its alibi...
Born 32 years ago, son of a provincial hotelkeeper at Scarborough, England, Actor Laughton started miming soon after leaving Stonyhurst College. The last five years have seen his rise to prominence on the British stage in Alibi, Beauty and. incongruously, as the Italo-Chicagoan gang leader in Edgar Wallace's On The Spot. He created the role of Mr. Marble...
...Wood's alibi for his first false start was that his watch and that of his mechanic had stopped within a minute of the start, and that they had thrown them overboard! Nevertheless, the feeling that he had won by foul play where he knew he could not win by fair, persisted. Don was too honest even to suspect such a trick, and was an easy victim. It was suggested on many sides that the Trophy should be exhibited in the Yacht Club this year, covered with a black cloth. Kaye Don proved himself a thorough sportsman when...
...citizenry with their wives and baby carriages lined the shore. U. S. observers, remembering the difficulties of U. S. Army pilots in hitting the unarmed Mt. Shasta (TIME, Aug. 24), wondered what success they would have. The Chilean aviators did not actually sink anything but they had an unanswerable alibi: It was their duty not to damage valuable government property more than was absolutely necessary. In the line of duty they hit the General O'Higgins right on the nose. Her prow burst into flames which were quickly put out. There was no score on the Almirante Latorre...