Word: dieses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back Street (Universal). Fannie Hurst's tender and moving biography of a kept woman is here reproduced in a sincere, detailed picture. Irene Dunne is the big-hearted daughter of a German notion-store keeper in Cincinnati. She falls in love with John Boles, a pedigreed young banker, who by...
THE CONJURE-MAN DIES ? Rudolph Fisher?Covici, Friede.
Author Fisher is a young Negro physician who lives and practices in Jamaica, L. I. His detective story is one of the first by a Negro and with an all-Negro cast Negroes are suitable for mystery stories because they are hard to see in the dark and because white...
The summer is a suitable time for blood & thunder. Detective stories, which normally sell better than any other form of fiction, reach their sales peak in August. Less extraordinary than The Conjure-Man Dies but still appealing, appalling is Dead Hands Reaching in which Dallas Gantry returns to her small...
Barrymore has been on the point of death in several recent pictures; it is his gruff demise which makes the end of this picture interesting. He is married to a Washington socialite (Karen Morley) who is extravagant and indiscreet. A public utilities lobbyist (C. Henry Gordon; finally forces him to...