Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Night of January 16th" is the murder-mystery, in which the author has relieved himself of the painful necessity of arriving at a conclusion. With an impartiality which would do credit to a magistrate Ayn Rand has written his play in the form of a court trial and arranged things so that the verdict is given by a jury selected from the audience. Thus, as the author tells us, it is really the audience who is on trial. This may or may not be drama, but it certainly makes for a pleasant theatrical picnic...
...Saturday night the good men and true included such worthies as former Mayor John Fitzgerald, Charles Innes, Eliot Wadsworth, and other luminaries in the Hub firmament. They decided that Karen Andre was not guilty of the murder of her lover, Bjorne Faulkner, the notorious Swedish tycoon; which is just about the way things seemed to this unjudicial corner...
...always been the naive conviction of this reviewer that nobody could be convicted of murder unless the body had been definitely identified or could be produced. Inasmuch as the state is unable to prove that the corpse was Faulkner's we don't exactly see how the jury could convict Miss Andre. At any rate the dialogue is well written and the play is constructed with a reasonably sure touch. The humor is of the predictable type and not particularly annoying...
...sentence. Next day, declaring the Wendel confession "incredible," Justice Thomas W. Trenchard refused to stay the execution pending its investigation. Meantime the Mercer County Grand Jury headed by one Allyne Freeman, longtime Republican office-seeker and supposed good friend of Governor Hoffman, was weighing the charge of murder against Wendel. At 8 p. m., 20 minutes before Hauptmann was to be led to the electric chair, Foreman Freeman asked the prison warden by telephone to delay the execution until the jury had made up its mind. The warden, a Hoffman appointee, announced a postponement of at least 48 hours...
...Aubrey Smith and his dog are trub the bright spots in a picture which might murder the appeal of Freddie Bartholemew for intelligent movie-goers. In "Copperfield" the boy was marvelous Please, Hollywood, don't make him into a male Shirley Temple...