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...lost his taste for both his soda-jerking job and his pretty, addle-pated wife (Virginia Mayo). Fredric March, after a stretch as a middle-aged infantry sergeant, now sees his stuffy bank job in a new perspective. Made shy by a long-deferred reunion with his wife (Myrna Loy) and grown-up daughter (Teresa Wright), March goes on one of the funniest benders ever filmed...
Then the Warners took a flyer in Western Electric's experimental sound-film, which most Hollywood companies had already turned down. On Aug. 6. 1926, Warner's Manhattan theater screened Don Juan (John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Myrna Loy) with a fully synchronized musical background. On the same bill were eight sound shorts. Historians agree that the bell tolled that evening for silent pictures...
...Loy Harrison silently looked on as the men dragged the struggling women over to the oak tree and shoved them beside the bound figures of their husbands. Then the mob fired three pointblank volleys into their prisoners...
Back in the jail at Monroe, Deputy Sheriff Howard picked up the jangling phone. The voice on the other end was Loy Harrison's. "Mr. Howard," it said, "they just hijacked me and killed my niggers...
...Major William F. Spence, Georgia State Police head, complained: "We just can't cope with the case. . . . The best people in town won't talk about this." Loy Harrison, who had lived in those parts all his life, still could not identify either members of the mob or its "dressed mighty proud" ringleader...