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Major Albert Brill (U. S. A., ret.) declared himself a candidate for the job of World Dictator, then sailed for Europe to arrange for foreign publication of his four volumes (Individual Ascendency, Collective Ascendency, Ascendent Government, Citizenship) that explain all. Said he: "The world is practically a vast lunatic asylum...
Hellzapoppln (produced by Olsen & Johnson) is a cross between a fire in a lunatic asylum and the third clay at Gettysburg. Billed as a "screamlined revue," it roars into action with bullets, bombs and sounds of heavy artillery backstage. Radios blare, sound films boom, gorillas growl, vendors hawk tickets for rival shows, people race across the stage, plunge down the aisles, dive among the audience, ride horseback in boxes...
Four deaths in 40 days were too many even in 1901. The police took Nurse Toppan. In her confession she said she had murdered "for the fun of it." At the insane asylum she became a model inmate, but at first they had to put her in a strait jacket and force-feed her. She thought someone was trying to poison...
...course of my life," Celine once confessed, "I spent so many years as a bard, a hero, an official, and a doormat in the service of so many thousands of madmen that my memories alone would fill a whole insane asylum." Readers of Journey to the End of the Night, which at 40 turned Celine (real name: Louis Des-touches) from an obscure municipal doctor to the most sensational of contemporary writers, may have thought that savage autobiographical novel was enough to fill a whole insane asylum by itself. But the Journey had left untold the story of Celine...
THEY CAN'T HANG ME-James Ronald -Crime Club ($2). Ex-newspaper publisher, shut up in an asylum for 18 years as a homicidal maniac, escapes with the intention of murdering the men who had him locked up. Clever plot, spiced with humor...