Word: bat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Fred Hillerich, 90, pioneer baseball bat manufacturer, maker of the famed "Louisville Slugger" used by many major league players; at Louisville, Ky., from complications following a fractured...
...Whispering Wires", at the Plymouth Theatre is another of those popular mystery plays, which depends more on mechanical devices for its effect than on any inherent dramatic qualities. It cannot be as seriously criticised on these grounds however, as its predecessors, "The Bat" and "The Cat and the Canary",--the mechanics are not quite as essential, and incidentally the results are not as terrifying...
...Whispering Wires" does not reach quite the high points of "The Bat", but it has the merit of never lagging, of wasting no time at all and of affording all the excitement that one actual murder and one near-murder can stir up in present-day barbaric theatre goers...
...NEXT ROOM-A successfully eerie descendant of The Bat dynasty of mystery plays...
...wrote a mystery yarn called The Boule Cabinet. Eleanor Robson (Mrs. August) Belmont saw in it another who-killed-him drama and (in collaboration with Harriet Ford) managed the transposition. One will surmise that a mystery melodrama must be exceptionally good to warrant production after The Thirteenth Chair, The Bat and their descending dynasty. In the Next Room is exceptionally good. It states its problem, defies the spectator to solve it, maintains that defiance to the very closing moments of the action. Since mystery plays depend for their effect on secrecy, the plot will remain undivulged. Most of the important...