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...infamous Henri Desire Landru as France's most spectacular murderer when a M. Poncel returned from a vacation in Italy to his villa near Marseilles. M. Poncel found the dining room floor ruined by strange stains, a heap of acid-eaten rags near the garden hedge, and a horrid stinking mess in a corner of the garden. Georges Sarret had prepared carefully for his chosen profession of insurance murderer by studying medicine, chemistry and law at Marseilles. He also needed confederates. These he found in the persons of the Bavarian sisters Philomena and Catherine Schmidt who had been unofficially...
Chicago's schoolteachers eyed their charges with a horrid new thought in mind last week. They had to discover if any other children were criminal morons like George Rogalski. In the classroom George Rogalski had been clever, polite, attentive. His teachers had noticed nothing strange about him except that he sometimes teased smaller children. Last week George Rogalski was in jail, his name was in grisly headlines and Superintendent of Schools William Joseph Bogan, after voicing a wish that every one of Chicago's 500,000 schoolchildren could be psychoanalyzed, had ordered analysis for every pupil who seemed...
...with the bookmaker. Garry Madison grows jealous. When the bookmaker is found murdered in a gutter, Garry Madison is held for murder. Sheila Aiken, who could have given Garry an alibi by admitting that he was at her house, refuses to do so unless Lady Lee divorces him. This horrid snarl is untangled as simply as it was arranged, by a shot of Madison's uncouth father (C. Aubrey Smith) noticing tears in Lady Lee's eyes when she has said farewell to Garry...
...Horrid! And gold flushed more...
...Salome at the Metropolitan Opera House. To it had gone many a rich and respectable churchgoer to see how Olive Fremstad would exhibit her fanatical lust for the body of St. John the Baptist. The churchgoers were offended enough by the screaming dissonances and the way Fremstad brought the horrid head up to the footlights, caressed the matted black hair, kissed the cold lips. But no one was so outraged as Dr. William Stephen Rainsford when he went to breakfast on Monday with his spiritual client, the late John Pierpont Morgan. One public performance of Salome was given that night...