Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DEATH PLAYS SOLITAIRE-R. L. Goldman- Coward-McCann ($2). News Publisher Asaph Clume and Reporter Rufus Reed again team up, crack the secret behind the shooting of a criminal lawyer. Tough, but not bogus tough...
Only thing that gives the play distinction is Ethel Waters' playing of Hagar. In her first dramatic role the famed singer of blues and hotcha shames the play's bogus tear-jerking with her own deep and honest intensity. More moving than anything in the story are the fugitive looks of love and suffering that every so often cross Ethel Waters' plain, brown, human face...
Applying a sarcastic, or not so sarcastic, quietus to the Hicks appointment controversy, Apley's letter is not bogus, as was first suspected by readers this week...
...questions by Mr. Henderson intended to bring out the facts of her arrest and the charges on which she is being held went unanswered. Citizen Rubens said that she left the U. S. on a passport bearing her own name, was supplied en route by her "husband" with a bogus U. S. passport in another name visaed for the U. S. S. R. Last week there were even such rumors current as those that the "husband" may have been a woman dressed...
...outwits the motley gang of variously disguised crooks that has taken possession of her old Connecticut homestead to perpetrate a kidnapping act. The team consists of an unemployed minister, a woman who pretends to bear the baby several days before it is kidnaped, the doctor who attends at the bogus birth, and a nurse. The "mother" gets excessively nervous, so the minister, the brains of the organization, orders her extermination. Previously, however, Letty has announced herself to be the mother of the unhappy offspring, thereby covering the criminals, although she imagines that she is merely sheltering an indiscreet society girl...