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...delightful pastoral, a "Shadow of Doubt" crosses the screen. This is a murder mystery which carries Ricardo Cortez and Virginia Bruce through many a night club, until at last the web is unfangled by an astonishingly brusque and perspicacious maiden aunt. If you should have difficulty in selecting the culprit, look for the Yale man, two years...
...sausages in Tom-Tom's house to make it appear that Tom-Tom is guilty of the crime. Tom-Tom is sentenced to exile in Bogey-land but before its inhabitants?miniature King-Kongs with pitchfork teeth?have time to destroy him, the villagers of Toyland discover the real culprit. This leads first to a heroic rescue of Tom-Tom by Ollie and Stannie and finally to a war in which the bogeys are decimated by a regiment of wooden soldiers...
...rise of the Cardinals to fame, with the betting odds against them, many people would be only too glad to see them lose, so that the picture is practically littered up with suspects. True to all mystery stories, the most innocent appearing and least suspected is the culprit, who finally goes mad, having perpetrated his dastardly deeds with practically unlimited resources, which include a bomb in the form of a pocket watch, a poisoned mustard jar exchanged for the genuine by a hairy hand under cover of the excitement caused by a firecracker (mind you, in the end, only...
...Yard Police apprehended a student in the act of pleading with a freshman for his laundry contract. The man was put out of the dormitory and Colonel Apted issued a warning to all concerned that the University's rule against canvassing the dormitories would be upheld. Neither the culprit nor Apted and anything to say about the affair but the ultimatum was issued. Solicitors beware...
Philbrick was caught in the act of dropping bundles of the pamphlets down the blowers by one of the German sailors on watch, who called a Marine guard to take charge of the matter. The Marine guard handed the culprit over to the commandant of the Navy Yard but this official declared that the affair was outside his jurisdiction and referred him to the Federal Marshal...