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After six weeks the Grand Jury found the evidence against Farmer Hoffman insufficient. It supported his alibi, doubted Anna Kolesar's identification. Sole suspect of the murder, he was released unconditionally. The county prosecutor stated that unless new evidence was presented, the murder case was closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Town & Country | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Small Elizabeth had "great pain with her great teeth," which served as an alibi for her earliest whims. She was greedy for meats, fruits, wines. Masculinity she soon exhibited, studying literary classics as might a boy, fencing with impetuous skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Virgin Queen | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Loew's Orpheum--"Alibi". A thoroughly good crook melodrama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 6/5/1929 | See Source »

Best current pictures arranged (A) according to merit, (B) according to the money they made last week: (A) The Passion of Joan of Arc- superb silent study of a saint's trial and death. The Divine Lady-Admiral Nelson ashore. Alibi-skillful, authentic crook-play with dialog. The Letter- Maugham melodrama with Jeanne Eagels and good synchronization. Madame X- marks a spot where old-fashioned melodrama becomes good entertainment. (B) The Broadway Melody (records everywhere); The Wild Party ($30,500 Granada, San Francisco); Weary River ($26.300, Strand, Brooklyn); The Barker ($25,000, Loew's State, Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citation | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Parade." Alibi (United Artists) is more credible than most crook pictures. Director Roland West makes it move fast by spacing dialog with pantomime. Chester Morris gives a valid interpretation of a young man who. in the beginning, comes out of jail a gunman, and in the end goes back, still a gunman, because he cannot prove that-he was in the theatre with a policeman's daughter at the moment-when a detective was murdered. Worst shot-prolonged death of the detective. Best sound shot- liquor gurgling out of a carafe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 22, 1929 | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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