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...stabbed and left for dead but who turned up as witnesses at the trial had hysterics, screamed, fainted in the court. But no less calm than the prisoner was one stolid, buxom peasant wench. She told how Kuerten had got her down, pierced her 30 times with a dagger "until the blade broke...
...madcap in costume, which was an advantage. In Coquette she had an hysterical scene which was widely applauded and made up for her routine madcapping. In Kiki the madcapping consists of losing her panties on the stage, reading other people's letters, using a hatpin as a dagger, wrestling with a butler, falling into a bass drum, and remaining, through it all, a Nice Girl. The story, which has been filmed before with Norma Talmadge and Ronald Colman, deals with a show girl in love with the manager of her show. The humor is mechanical and not really funny...
...Japanese Diet last week Deputy Tokuho Mitsui (not a member of the "House of Mitsui," richest in Japan) was stabbed in the arm with a fountain pen. A dagger flashed. In the wild melee several heads and hands were slashed. Other heads grew lumps after the police poured in. When the fight first began, Acting Prime Minister Baron Shidehara was in a nearby room. Without an instant's hesitation he walked out of the Diet Building surrounded by his six new plainclothesmen (all jiu-jitsu experts), climbed into his limousine and drove home...
Perforce, the opposition were balked, but they were still so boiling mad that, later, during a discussion of financial matters, party passions fizzed up into the dagger scene...
...looks Mediterranean rather than Jewish. With Charles MacArthur (husband of Actress Helen Hayes) he wrote the Broadway smash-hit The Front Page; with the same collaborator has written a new play that will be produced this year. Other books: Gargoyles, Erik Darn, 1001 Afternoons in Chicago, The Florentine Dagger, Humpty Dumpty, Broken Necks, Fantazius Mallare (limited and suppressed...