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...Haven. Mr. Sherrill is a trustee of New York University where he founded the fine arts school, is the author of Stained Glass Tours in France (1908), In England (1909), In Italy (1913), In Spain & Flanders (1924), In Germany (1927). ¶Mrs. Mary Mooney, 84, mother of California Convict Tom Mooney, called at the White House. Told that the President was too busy to hear her plea for her son's release, she left her appeal in manuscript. Other visitors last week who did see the President: Jay Herod, 10, San Francisco violin prodigy, Alayne Brown, 15, St. Louis...
...film that brings up the rear in a procession of type pictures is sure to be at a disadvantage, whether it be of the gangster, or convict genre. When all the cards have been played, there is little novelty to be gained by reshuffling. Only rarely can a film like "Hell's Angels" cap all that has gone before...
...Ladies of the Big House" is meant as a prison film to end prison films, the definitive edition of convict sages. It is adequately enough constructed, and well provided with dramatic suspense. But there is nothing new about it. A corrupt city government precipitates two innocent youngsters into prison, the girl to be held for life, the boy to be hanged. There are borrowing days of suspense while the two look "for evidence to clear them. There are prison walls in Hollywood's best decor. Shadows of the gallows darken the screen, as the lovers say their rather affecting farewells...
Reported a $177,000,000 appropriation for the Department of Agriculture after upping it $2,000,000 over the House figure and striking out an amendment denying Federal road construction aid to States using convict labor...
...subject of lynching, however, the Southern press is a unit. Convict-flogging having been abolished in most Southern States, including Florida, there is little occasion for "standing forth" against that...