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...Illinois, last week, at the Stateville and Joliet Penitentiaries, began a high-school correspondence course with 22 convict-students, this faculty: Scholar-Murderer Richard Loeb, director and instructor in English composition, history and Spanish; Attorney-Kidnapper Joseph Pursifull, Latin; Engineer-Forger Mark Oettinger, mathematics; Student-Bandit Edward ("Toddy") Dillon, English literature...
Unlike sexy Strange Interlude and Mourning Becomes Electra, Emperor Jones contains no love motif. O'Neill's hero was a Negro convict, a one-time Pullman porter, crapshooter, murderer, who escaped to the West Indies, called himself Emperor, bled his native subjects until they turned on him, chased him into the jungle and destroyed him. Two grotesque African gods pillared the stage when the Metropolitan curtain went up last week and an off-stage chorus started shouting "He mus' die." Brasses blared savagely against a rattle of percussives. The first short scene made Metropolitan listeners fear that...
...Leavenworth in October, announced that he was ready to serve his term. Only after a long search could the Department of Justice find any record of his case. He told his jailer that since 1920 California's Senator Shortridge and Representative Swing had known he was an escaped convict. Because of his good record for 34 years President Hoover last week gave William Kirby Robinson an unconditional pardon...
Swap In Mexico City's penitentiary, Martinez Carrillo who wanted food & lodging changed clothes with Convict Ruiz Moreno who wanted freedom. Citizen Carrillo went to Moreno's cell, Convict Moreno out into the night...
Barney Slaney, six-foot-five and solid as stone, was a brave engineer but his wife was a bad w-m-n. When Barney discovered the facts he killed her and her lover, was sentenced to a convict camp for life. But he did not stay long. Told off to help bury yellow-fever victims in a nearby town, Barney made a graveyard break and got away. In his flight he met up with a lovely virgin, conveniently orphaned by the epidemic. Naturally they fell in love. In a Western mining town they married, soon became most popular members...