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...fellows are Jeromo D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation and director of the tercentenary celebration; Henry A. Murray, Jr. '15, assistant professor of Abnormal and Dynamic Psychology; Henry L. Shattuck '01, Treasurer of the University and member of the Corporation; Walker R. Spalding '87, professor of Music, emeritus; Derwent S. Whittlesey, associate professor of Geography, and tutor; and Tyler Dennett, president of Williams College...
Hunter Donald Randolph Philip Savilla Stiano Braggiotti Betty Findon Daphne Wilson Colin Derwent Bramwell Fletcher Sir Miles Standing Oswald Yorke Inspector Pember Reynolds Denniston Sergeant Brace Leslie Barrie...
...innocent young girl, Betty Findon, is almost engaged to Colin Derwent, embryo barrister; but along comes dashing Philip Savilla, and persuades her to agree to go off with him on a sexual junket to Paris. Derwent, of course, knows that Savilla is a crashing cad, who lures women abroad to a horrible fate--just what this fate is never becomes quite clear. Obviously, he must save poor Betty from this awful monster; but how, he does not know until he sees himself in a dream killing Savilla and establishing his alibi by tampering with the clock, so that it will...
...unprincipled villain named Sevilla (Stiano Braggiotti) is about to lure away to Paris Betty Findon (Daphne Warren Wilson), an impressionable young woman who does not know the horrid fate which awaits her in South America. Her childhood sweetheart, Colin Derwent (Bramwell Fletcher, a capable young Englishman returned to Broadway from Hollywood), can save her only by murdering Sevilla. A barrister, young Derwent has to use all the tricks his quick mind can provide to save himself from the gallows...
First he dreams the perfect murder. But when he puts it into execution he finds circumstances altered. His hand trembles. Sevilla's servant has not been sent away as Derwent had planned, but is waiting in the pantry for his apprehensive master's signal. Worse, the girl, too, is in the house. The results of Derwent's manipulations with a wall clock may puzzle you, but if you think it over a while you will find that Playwright Armstrong has played fair. Cleverest twist to the whole bag of theatrical tricks occurs when Derwent saves himself from...