Word: bluebeards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Napoleon Intrudes" is called by its author, Walter Hasenclaver, the noted German expressismist, "An adventure in seven pictures." It portrays 'Napoleon," a wax figure in a museum, together with other celebrities such as Mussolini, the President of the United States, and the French Bluebeard, Monsieur Landru, who becomes dissatisfied with the condition of affairs in Europe. He gets himself into a convention of nations, a movie studio, and a madhouse in rapid succession; by his continual insistence that he is Napoleon people are convinced that he is insane. Finally he gives up his idea of reorganizing the governments of Europe...
...Successor to the more famed Eden Musee which ran for 30 years in Manhattan's West 2nd Street and was among the first cinema exhibitors (Bluebeard, in color). Most famed of all wax works, Madame Tussaud's in London, burned...
...Powers trial at Clarksburg, although the authorities took care of as many spectators as they could by holding it in Moore's Opera House. Outside were sold phonograph records, sheet music composed about the Quiet Dell tragedy, a pamphlet called The Love Secrets of West Virginia's Bluebeard. Led into the Opera House every day on a chain like a little bear, Mr. Powers sat on the stage and chewed gum apathetically. After hearing his defense, which attributed the murders to two mythical acquaintances of Powers', a jury of farmers and townspeople retired to the star...
...were found the bodies of two women and three children. In Clarksburg jail cowered a fat, beady-eyed, flabby little man, battered and bruised into a confession of his sadism. Police in many States followed clues to other crimes, other murders, all linked to Clarks burg's "Bluebeard" and the matrimonial societies through which he operated. From his papers it was apparent he had conducted at least 115 mail-order "court ships" with lonely, foolish women. Relatives of Widow Asta Buick Eicher, 50, in Park Ridge, Ill., became suspicious when Harry F. Powers, with whom she and her three...
...Cercle Francais has announced the cast for its fall play, "La Grande Duchesse et le Garcon d'Etage," to be given at the Fine Arts Theatre in Boston, December 11 and 12. The play was written by Alfred Savoir, author of "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" and is coached by W. B. Cowen '29, professor of French at Milton Academy...