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Month ago Sidney Sutherland had announced that he was going to "take a few healthy wallops at my latest favorite punching bag-the-gasoline rationing insane asylum in Southern California." His complaint: Atlantic Coast methods could not be applied to the Pacific Coast without disastrous results. His mistake: making Paul Barksdale D'Orr, California rationing officer, the butt of the controversy...
With a clank of chains and the mingled aroma of voodoo incense and roasting human flesh, William Buehler Seabrook reveals a story of his life. It is sensational and apparently omits little but the spectacular chunks that went into Seabrook's earlier personal histories (Asylum, The Magic Island...
...some odd reason overlooked by all the men until she finally gets Aherne. George Tobias plays a skillful Appopoulos, the loquacious landlord with an enlarged idea of his artistic abilities. The film's continual helter-skelter action makes most of the actors first-class candidates for an asylum, but it's only a story and as such is good entertainment...
...replace the hired hands farmers must employ people they cannot trust with costly machinery and expensive dairy cows-untrained city people, school children, oldsters. From the U.S. Employment Service one Connecticut farmer got an epileptic, a drunk and a man just out of an insane asylum...
Mustered out as an ensign in 1918, John Carroll painted pictures for a time of the inmates in a Macon, Ga. insane asylum, made picture frames for fellow artists in Woodstock, N.Y., designed stained-glass windows for Tiffany, made copies of old masters in the Metropolitan Museum. His first Manhattan show was put on by an ex-bartender named Daniel...