Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrasting the Crime Club's late Edgar Wallace with the Saturday Evening Post's Stephen Vincent Benet, "Dangerous To Know" and "Love, Honor, and Behave" constitute an average double bill. Mr. Wallace's effort is by far the better, and to his good, albeit depressing, story is added fine performances by Akim Tamiroff and Anna May Wong--the music-loving gangster and his "hostess," respectively. But "Love, Honor, and Behave" fails completely to be either an amusing musicale or a sound social drama, succeeding only in convincing a spineless Yale graduate (Wayne Morris) that he should spank his wife (Priscilla...
...cultural Bolshevist). Despite a plea by Germany's star conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had introduced the work at a Berlin concert, Composer Hindemith's compositions were officially banned from German concert programs. Conductor Furtwängler resigned his job in protest, cried: "It is a crime to attempt to defame and drive him [Hindemith] from Germany, since none of the younger generation has done more than he for the recognition of German music throughout the world." Since then, Kulturbolschewist Hindemith, though he still lives in suburban Berlin, has had to go abroad to hear or perform...
...Nicholas Vanalstyne, though he relishes smashing his enemies, wouldn't think of leaving an orphan or a widow dispossessed by him to suffer in penury. His son, heir, and namesake, however, is a rotter pure and simple. He has lived in sin, but he throws the odium of the crime on his innocent little brother Bertie. He owes all he has to his father, but he tries to crush the rugged old man and build his own fortune on the ruins. Thus in this play Howard seeks to show how Mammon rules supreme, and how even the highly respectable Protestant...
...John Osceola, released in custody of his white attorney, was allowed to explain himself, through an interpreter, on the radio. Said he: "He my cousin, but he bad Indian too. I kill him by cuttem belly with knife." Listeners wondered whether the police had arrested him for the wrong crime...
...World, he gushed one day like a Southern belle, the next flogged, like Simon Legree. As playwright, he collaborated with George S. Kaufman on the moderately successful Channel Road (1929), Dark Tower (1933). As contributor to The New Yorker, he wrote with equal vivacity on anagrams and croquet, of crime and parlor games. As author, he wrote books about dogs, the theatre, Irving Berlin, Mrs. Fiske (his stage idol), Dickens (his literary idol), achieved a best-seller with While Rome Burns. As editor, he compiled The Woollcott Reader and Woollcott's Second Reader, 1,100 pages which reveal Woollcott...