Word: clue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respect, however, "The Cat and the Canary" fails as did its fellow, "The Bat". Both plays cry aloud for a solution from beginning to final denouement, but neither supplies a real clue from which the true secret can be deduced. In fact every effort is made to mislead the earnest spectator to a wrong conclusion. But this is an unimportant detail. Anyone who likes to spend an uneasy, riotous evening, and to observe the instability of his neighbor's equilibrium will do well to visit "The Cat and the Canary...
...CLUE OF THE NEW PIN?Edgar Wallace?Small, Maynard ($1.90). Jesse Trasmere, an eccentric millionaire who made his money in China, is murdered in a vault which has no exit whatever except one door, locked from the inside. The only key of that door lies on the table near his body. The sole apparent clue to the murder is a new pin found on the floor of the vault. Suspicion falls upon various characters in turn?a beautiful actress?a former partner of Trasmere's now turned dope-fiend?Trasmere's valet?and so on. The explanation, when it comes...
...Nolan, of the Pennsylvania State Tuberculosis Clinic, Jeannette, Pa., has had apparently successful cures for pulmonary tuberculosis through inhaling fumes from a combination of carbon and calcium. The clue to this treatment he found in the low tuberculosis deathrate of Pittsburgh...
...Museum, Boston. At its height the Mayan race probably numbered several million people, and the population of Chichen Itza was about 500,000. Their decorative arts show exquisite workmanship. Astronomy and mathematics were highly developed. They had an elaborate picture writing, much of which has been deciphered, giving the clue to many dates in inscriptions and chronicles. Their calendar was the most complex and exact known in the ancient world, with a century of 52 years, and a year of 18 months of 20 days each...
...story of Zander the Great concerns the efforts of a young woman to restore a foundling child to its father. She gets a clue and takes the child to Arizona where the father is conducting business as a prosperous bootlegger. The woman (Alice Brady) decides that such a man is not fit to bring up the child, and resolves to marry her old suitor from New Jersey-when it develops that he, too, is a successful bootlegger. The real father then conforms to the exigencies of the plot by reforming under the beneficent charms of the child. A happy curtain...