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...Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill gave the investigation an unheard-of twist. McGill announced that an anonymous "wool hat" Georgian, a firm believer in "white supremacy," had deposited with him a $500 reward for the arrest and conviction of Mallard's killers. Said the wool-hatter: "This is a white man's country and therefore the law is the white man's law. It is important that he live by it ... No decent white man, no real 'wool hat Georgian' will support murder and lynch violence...
...Hatter's Castle (Paramount) is the beetle-browed mansion of a brutal hat-shop owner (Robert Newton) whose arrogant ambition to rise above his station kills his wife, drives his son to suicide, and sends his unmarried pregnant daughter (Deborah Kerr) out into a raging storm with fine Victorian flourish. Then, completely batty, father pulls the burning castle down over his ears in a huff, and leaves a mild young doctor (James Mason) to make an honest woman of Miss Kerr. The only possible excuse for bringing this seven-year-old film to the U.S. is mercenary...
...Everyone in the English village of Brensham knew that their lovable lord of the manor was as mad as a hatter (he didn't have a penny in the bank and happily ate his own rabbits, stewed, three times a day). But when they discovered that the old gentleman had never seen a movie, they realized that his condition was more serious than they had suspected, and the pub-keeper's daughter rushed Lord Orris off to the nearest movie house. He emerged spellbound, exclaiming: "My dear, it was wonderful! That splendid detective! . . . And those policemen on motorcycles...
...Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution. During the blitz he helped corner a zebra that escaped when a bomb scored a direct hit on the Zoo. As a "safety valve" for his scientific work, Huxley writes intellectual doggerel (sample lines: And heavenly matter Is mad as a hatter -Just atoms daemonic, A dance electronic...
...wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited," said the March Hare. "Your hair wants cutting" said the Hatter...