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...cast of Broadway's newest murder play thought that if they pretended John Collier was still alive, his murderer would reappear to investigate. So they pretended, as hard as and as long as they could. Now and again, some one of them would claim to be the culprit until at last the true culprit admitted her identity. Then the audience, which had begun to imagine that it would have to wait for a death bed confession, trooped wearily away. There was a rumor that famed Tennis Player William Tatem Tilden Jr. would appear in The Buzzard. He went...
...Furies. Murder, for playwrights' profit, is usually a sordid affair, committed in the first act and for no better reason than to provide a culprit for the conjuring author to produce in the last. Not so for Zoe Akins, who wrote The Furies. The news arrives, it is true, in the first act, that somebody has shot John Sands. The second act is given over almost entirely to heartless catechism conducted by a district attorney. The third finds Fifi Sands imprisoned in a skyscraper apartment with the lunatic who, because he had loved Fift and was afraid...
...stolen by a rebellious drunkard, Mr. Jones, to express his antipathy toward the upper classes who have deprived him of the privilege of working for a living. His wife, a charwoman, is suspected of the theft; but before the case reaches court, it becomes obvious that the true culprit is vapid young John Barthwick Jr. who, in a state of supreme inebriation, had been assisted into his father's home by Mr. Jones, thereby allowing the latter the opportunity for his theft. The last act, a trial scene, allows rich young Barthwick to go unpunished for this and more serious...
...highest court of France has acquitted Mr. Samuel Schwartzbard from any guilt in the Petlura affair, yet you, in your supposedly unbiased presentation of news, in TIME, Nov. 7, have called this man "murderer" and "culprit...
Also in dark letters you print the word "culprit." What should have followed this was a description of Petlura. He was the guilty person, the criminal. Instead you write so ignorantly or purposely of Schwartzbard. You gave the honor of a picture in your magazine to Schwartzbard and call him "murderer." There in that place should have been another, that was declared so by the most impartial and fairest court in the world...