Word: hale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forget, Director Mervyn Le Roy uses this situation for the most devastating study of mob violence and sectional hatred the screen has yet dared to present. There are three major suspects in the case of Mary Clay: the school's principal, the Negro janitor and Robert Hale (Edward Norris), a young Northerner who taught Mary's class and who was seen coming out of the building after the crime. To District Attorney Griffin (Claude Rains), the principal is too big a personage and the janitor too small, to serve his purpose of a spectacular conviction. Reporter Bill Brook...
Courtroom scenes are a dramatic standby, but for bleak, malevolent drama, the screen has never achieved a better one than the trial of Robert Hale. It ends, when a string of cowardly witnesses have given their lying testimony, with Attorney Griffin's masterly peroration which the jurors do not need to convince them that Hale is guilty. Aware of the circumstances of the trial, the Governor commutes Hale's sentence of death to life imprisonment, but Flodden's seething population has by this time long since made up its mind how the affair must end. The train...
...effective stroke of editing was the publication in the same issue of the Journal of a short story by Nancy Hale, "The Blue-Muslin Sepulchre," which originally appeared in Scribner's. This story, a telling blow of fiction in Dr. Parran's war, describes the tragedy of a respectable family of two frail daughters and their mother who are kept in ignorance by the family doctor of the father's syphilis...
Thus unfolded were Steps Nos. 2 and 3 of the great Hearst retrenchment plan of 1937, necessitated by the fact that not even William Randolph Hearst can carry losing properties indefinitely and that he, though hale at 74, is getting no younger. His plans to mortgage a big portion of his properties to the public for $35,500,000 cash remained stalled in SEC last week and pending their approval, by a none-too-friendly Administration, Mr. Hearst's feelings must have continued akin to those of Hearst employes who still waited to see the full extent...
Died. William Andrew Me Andrew, 73, famed educator, onetime (1924-28) Chicago Superintendent of Schools; in Mamaroneck, N. Y. The focus of William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson's clownish anti-British Mayoralty campaign of 1926, Michigan-born Educator McAndrew retired from teaching to edit the "Educational Review" in School & Society...