Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admirer of Edna May Oliver, you will enjoy "Murder on a Honeymoon." It is shown at 1.14, 4.18, 7.22, and 10.26 o'clock. This leaves you no excuse for seeing the "Casino de Paree' stage show...
...Frances McDonald of the New York Goodwill Court, has pointed out that the Reverend's outbreak was more than an isolated incident, worthy of special note. In murder trial after murder trial, all over the land, courthouses have been swarmed with people who have no business there. Flemington was not unusual. In a French-revolution air, the courtroom was suffocated with people eating, people chewing, people drinking ginger ale from quart battles, people demonstrating in every conceivable fashion their contempt for the court. Mr. McDonald recalls an eminent alienist's examination of a row of 12 women at the Loeb...
...kidnaper perpetrated his crime. Copies of the ransom notes were made to substantiate each individual's "confession." Yet what right have picnic parties to break up solemn proceedings? Why should the insane get away with contempt of court? Executions are officially witnessed, yet barred to the public. Why should murder trials be open to the public--when the "public" which swarms to the kill is mainly lunatics and monomaniacs...
That Drood was murdered by Jasper is the theory projected in most of the eight books, five plays and 80 articles that have been written on the subject since Dickens died in 1870. That verdict was handed down in 1914 after a literary mock trial at which Gilbert Keith Chesterton was judge, George Bernard Shaw a juror. A notable dissident, however, is Stephen Leacock. This humorist and McGill University economist believes that for Drood to be murdered is too obviously unmysterious. According to Dickensian Leacock, Drood managed to escape a murderous assault by Jasper, but the choirmaster, in an opium...
When the Hauptmann murder trial opened at Flemington, N. J. press photographers and newsreel cameramen were admitted on Judge Trenchard's condition that no pictures be taken while court was in session. To minimize confusion the five major newsreels-Paramount, Hearst Metrotone, Fox, Pathe, Universal- jointly operated a single sound-camera, each company receiving a print of all pictures taken. The camera, electrically controlled and housed in a soundproof hood, was lodged in the balcony, about 35 ft. from the judge's bench. A microphone was hidden behind an electric fan over the jury...