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...Crainquebille," picture of the evening, based on the play of that name by Anatole France, emphasises the futility of human justice. Crainquebille, who pushes a vegetable cart about Paris, is arrested on a false charge of shouting at a policeman, "Mort aux vaches...
Desperately looking back to his prison days, he shouts "Mort aux vaches!" at another policeman. When the policeman pays no attention to him he decides to end his life by jumping into the Seine. Befriended at the last moment by some Paris gamins, he goes off to live with them...
After the War, when the famed "Masked Marvel" (Mort Henderson) was defeated by Strangler Lewis, wrestling became comparatively unprofitable. Promoter Curley restored the sport to favor in 1929 by the simple device of having his performers shriek, groan, wave their arms, grimace and plunge out of the ring, instead of squirming calmly on the floor as is the practice of wrestlers who are solely occupied with winning...
Died. Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler, 74, famed Alsatian-born composer (Mort de Tintagiles, Pagan Poem, Evocation); in Medfield, Mass...
...series of cuts called "The Dance of Death." The Fogg Museum is the possessor of one of the six known complete sets of the proofs of this series. There is also an exhibition a first edition of Holbein's book, "Los Simulachres at Histories Faces do la Mort," which is lent to the museum by Philip Hofer...