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...January, Martin Luther King stood outside a slum tenement and pronounced: "I am hereby assuming trusteeship of this building to make life more livable for the tenants." All that the five families in the building had to do was to hand their rent over to King instead of the landlord, the Negro leader explained, and he would use it to renovate the place and turn the balance over to the owner. Conceding that this might be considered "supralegal," King contended: "We aren't dealing with the legality of it. We are dealing with the morality...
Died. William Frawley, 79, character actor, an oldtime vaudevillian who had played in more than 100 movies and Broadway shows before finding instant fame in the '50s as irascible Landlord Fred Mertz in TV's I Love Lucy, where he stayed for all 214 episodes, though he soon found the show "like eating stew every night-stale and not a bit funny"; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
Kushi explained that he moved from Cambridge because be needed a bigger house for students who wanted to live at the institute. Cambridge officials had charged him with operating his home as a lodging house without a license. He said that he had thought his landlord's license sufficient...
...movie's plot is almost ridiculous. A moody French girl, never very fond of men, goes insane and bashes in the head of a well-meaning suitor who breaks into her barricaded apartment. Next her landlord shows up with a plan to free her of the burden of rent and unwisely attempts to implement it. When an older sister and her lover return from a vacation, they find the beau's corpse in the bathtub, the landlord's under the living-room couch, and the girl herself, nearly cataonic, under their bed. This is pretty febrile stuff, but the mood...
...imminent. One day the girl takes a rabbit's severed head to work in her purse. The real and the unreal merge, and soon her human victims appear. The first is a suitor (John Fraser) whose conventional acts of gallantry lead to a gruesome end. Later an indignant landlord (played with mordant, bumbling humor by Patrick Wymark) comes to collect his rent and lingers to try his luck. Right up to the grisly climax, the audience seldom wonders what will happen, but endures agonies as to how and when...