Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both pictures at the University this week are fairly riotous, although the feature number adds a dash of satire to the run of rollicking fun. In "The Ghost Goes West," Robert Donat, last of the clan of Glourie, is forced to sell his ancestral castle at the moment Jean Parker happens along. He persuades her father (Eugene Pallette) a multimillionaire chain store tycoon, to buy the fortress and transplant it to the bonny banks of Florida. But unfortunately, a jolly philandering Glourie disgraced himself two centuries before, and was doomed to haunt the castle to take revenge on the enemy...
There was Three-Fingered Garcia, who could not resist yanking Chinese by their cues before slitting their throats; "Jack William's Ghost," who gave brandy to passengers while he took their riches; Tom Poole, Monterey undersheriff who went bad; Cochise the Apache and his raiding band and, greatest of all, Black Bart...
...lady. Therefore he killed the interloper with a bullet from his lever-action Winchester and was unmoved when they sent him to state's prison for 20 years. When he got out in four, he found that Camden had the explanation for his pardon, and for the ghost of Bugle Ann which ran the woods the night of his return. So nearly a scenario was Kantor's novel that Samuel Hoffenstein and Harvey Gates could have written most of their adaptation with a pair of shears and a paste-pot. Yet no company...
...There is vague talk that the State of Florida might take over the old right-of- way, use it to build a continuous automobile road down the Keys. Unless it does so, Key West, the last jewel inserted in the Flagler crown of empire, is liable to become a ghost city, reverting to sand...
...bottom of the mystery, Harriet sends for her savior, Peter Wimsey, only to learn that he has been sent abroad by an anxious Government. The college jitters get worse as the mysterious campaign grows weekly more sinister. In time's nick Lord Peter arrives. Whether he unmasks the ghost before murder is done, and whether Harriet finally yields to his importunity and marries him are eventualities prospective readers would not like to be told. Gaudy Night is written by one who knows and loves her Oxford-from the vantage of a woman's college. Author Sayers' story...