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...Sono-Art). Only the most skillful playing could have given a credible air to this complicated and artificial story. It was written by Arturo Mom, motion picture reviewer of La Nation of Buenos Aires, who apparently compiled it by pasting up some of his old notices. He includes a jailbreak, an attempted suicide, a marriage triangle, a race-with-death in fast cars along a headland. The one real and potentially effective suggestion of the picture-the relations between an egotistic young musician and the waif he has married for commercial reasons-is spoiled by Joseph Schildkraut's familiar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 28, 1930 | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...police surmises were correct, Badman Nannery had two disappointments last week. Added to the failure of the Naval Base raid was the frustration of a jailbreak plot at Sing Sing, in which Pal Ryan was embroiled. Warden Lewis Edward Lawes of Sing Sing keeps the most desperate of his charges in the thick-walled, century-old cellblock (TIME, Nov. 18). From an outside "wire" (tipoff) he learned that Ryan and three others in old Sing Sing were concocting a plot. Slyly he watched them. Suddenly the four were seized, their cells searched. In one were found draftsman's designs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Jobs oj the Week | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Cliff Perry (Fox) went home to wash up after shooting a jailbreak in Miami. He was electrocuted by the heater in his bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newsreelers | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...FRONT PAGE-Pressroom profanity occasioned by a jailbreak (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...FRONT PAGE−Pretty speeches from police-court reporters covering the jailbreak of a half-witted murderer, combined with the efforts of one of the reporters to get married before the last edition goes to press (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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