Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Anderson, who dramatically presented Elizabeth in his Elizabeth, the Queen three years ago, has done better by Mary in Mary of Scotland. Of the story of murder and plotting, cloaks & swords, knife-faced Bothwell, caddish Darnley, crafty young Elizabeth, the snaggle-toothed pack of Scots Lords, he has made a poetic play. Designer Robert Edmond Jones has set it against six harsh, splendid sets. The first scene is of Mary's landing at Leith, a "cold, dour, villainous and dastardly" place. The second in England shows Elizabeth plotting to trick Mary into marrying Tudor-blooded Darnley, a Catholic...
...United States claims at least one distinction, questionable as it may be, among the company of nations; however lewd its gangsters, it has at least an adamantine body of censors. The drama, literature, and articles of wearing apparel have all come under the knife, and practically every work which recognizes the existence of a difference between the sexes has been threatened, if not actually banned. The most recent example of this is the case, now in progress, of "United States vs. Ulysses," now being heard in New York by Judge Woolsey. The whole matter of keeping from the public James...
...SCARLET MESSENGER-Henry Holt-Crime Club ($2). Murder by knife, extortion by letter, intimidation by tonga bean bring Inspector Silver and Friend Collinson in & out of another mystery...
...evening His Majesty was leaving his harem. Too late he saw Death awaiting him. A man shot three bullets into him before, spare and powerful, Nadir Khan stumbled bleeding upon his assailant. He got the feel of the man in his hands but the other had a knife. The King's spectacles fell off his nose and shattered on the pavement. As the cold steel went deep in him. Nadir Khan fell down dead...
...skit in As Thousands Cheer, currently the most popular musicomedy in Manhattan, represents John Davison Rockefeller Jr. bestowing Radio City on his father as a birthday present. In a tremulous rage, the elder Rockefeller takes after his son with a carving knife. Guffawing audiences find the skit the funniest in the show, because it seems the truest. Financially, Radio City is a thumping flop. The precise size of the deficit is unknown, but there is no doubt that the thump lands squarely on the Rockefeller pocketbook. Most of the land beneath the enterprise is owned (tax free) by Columbia University...