Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point the wanderer paused a moment to muse on the passing of an old friend, a building missed by few, and now supplanted by a modern aedifice that never will quite be able to recapture the dim religious light of its antiquated predecessor. But this was no time to think longer of old Appleton Chapel. On stormy nights even the new landmark will pass out of sight in the greyness of the night, just as the older building used to do, until, in fact, its unobtrusiveness had wiped it away from the slate of remembrance...
Servants in the small Hotel Lincoln, in Paris,* were mildly surprised one evening last week to see the short, white-mustached old Americain who had been stopping at the hotel with his sick wife for several weeks, making his way furtively out of the house through the dim-lit service entrance. With him was his alert, dark-haired son, who had just arrived from the U. S. The son carried a small handbag. In the street they hailed a taxi, vanished into the night...
Howard Phillips, innocent of crime, is brought into the deathhouse as an electrocution prospect. The other convicts, introverts all, reflect on life as they await their turns in the chair. As in the play, the cell lights flicker and dim when the current is turned into the chair. Phillips swoons, mentally recapitulates his conviction. Preston Foster is the tough convict who leads the move by which the convicts capture the guards, barricade themselves inside the deathhouse. Bargaining for their liberty they execute the guards one by one. Meanwhile, radio policemen outside are chasing a set of gangsters...
...wanna die? Ya think that I ain't a human being? Ya think I don't wanna live? Ya think it's nice to wait in that rotten cell, day after day. week after week, month after month, and see men die, one after another, see lights go dim. hear the whine of that motor, and wait and wait and wait, and die a million times every minute...
...implausible. Police find one corpse in the undertaker's parlor. They pack it off to a gruff old personage named Robert Daniels (Tully Marshall) under the impression that it is his nephew. Daniels' daughter and her husband disappear. A murder appears to have been committed and a dim-witted lady named Sybil (Zasu Pitts) discovers an absent-minded individual dressed in a raincoat who seems to know something about it. Finally, Daniels' daughter and her husband discover the timid embalmer's assistant. He helps to explain matters to the addle-pated police...