Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lady Detained (by Samuel Shipman & John B. Hymer; S. L. Latham, producer) offers Song-&-Danceman Oscar Shaw (Very Good Eddie, Flying High) in his first legitimate appearance, in which he is called upon to impersonate the leader of an impoverished gang of ex-bootleggers. An air-minded heiress (handsome Claudia Morgan) drops out of a fog into the mob's rural retreat. The lady is detained for ransom, and, as Playwrights Shipman & Hymer have one of their hoodlums say, she might easily have fallen into the hands of less humane snatchers who would have kept her in a cellar...
...case, Counsel Reilly had declared: "The defense will establish that Hauptmann had nothing to do with the crime and that it was conceived in the Lindbergh home itself, but not by any member of the family. We will show that the kidnapping was planned and executed by a gang of five persons. . . . Furthermore, the defense will prove that the child was carried from its nursery down the stairs of the house and out of a door of the house, rather than down the ladder. ... I have an awful lot of questions to ask Col. Lindbergh, an awful lot of things...
...began a long enveloping movement in which he turned up every conceivable suspect of the crime except his client. He pointed the finger of suspicion at the Lindberghs' butler and cook, the Ollie Whatelys, at Nurse Gow and her summertime boy friend "Red" Johnson, at the Detroit Purple Gang, at Violet Sharpe, the Morrows' maid who killed herself, and most vigorously at "Jafsie" Condon...
...final scene, with lights out and the Mantee gang exchanging gunfire with the deputies outside while Alan and Gabrielle lie on the floor with their arms around each other, should raise audiences' hackles higher than anything on the Manhattan stage since the Group Theatre began producing its blood-&-thunder Red melodramas. Spectators get to hoping desperately that in the general gunplay, Duke Mantee (able Humphrey Bogart in a stubble beard) will somehow forget to shoot Actor Howard, who has turned in another of his fragile, impressively assured impersonations to adorn a notable career. But everyone must know...
...full Government approval, closely censored news-organs shrieked details so lurid as to be ludicrous. Lecherous French missionaries, it appeared, have been seducing Japanese girls. The jealousy of two such wenches with respect to their priest caused one of them to unmask him to the police. An entire priestly gang has been making "minute topographic surveys of the Japanese coast with tiny cameras," hiding the films in French missionary churches. To protect themselves against the just wrath of the local Japanese populace, certain French fathers go about "guarded with drawn swords by Japanese ex-soldiers whom they have converted...