Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Murder Farm." In Geneva a session of the Assembly of the League of Nations especially convened to end the everlasting war between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco achieved nothing more last week than an international radio hookup over which League statesmen mouthed fervent peace appeals...
Meanwhile, Yugoslavia filed charges with the League that Hungary was responsible for the assassination of King Alexander on French soil. The Yugoslav assassin was alleged to have been instructed in the use of weapons at a "murder farm" for Yugoslav terrorists in Hungary. Insulted to the last degree, Hungarian League Delegate Dr. Tibor Eckhardt challenged Yugoslav Foreign Minister Bogoljub Jeftitch to debate the issue on the spot. Hungary was backed up by Italy, II Duce proposing a general all-European investigation of refugee terrorists, such as the antiFascists who plot in Paris to assassinate him. Before this challenge...
...Firebird (Warner) is a routine Viennese boudoir-&Tpistol mystery which leaves the vague impression that a casual murder may be a fine, broadening influence on a woman. A conceited actor (Ricardo Cortez), who is fond of playing Stravinsky's blood-tingling Firebird, is found shot dead in his bedroom. Was he killed by his onetime wife, whom he had publicly knocked down for dunning him for alimony? Or by his neighbor Her Excellency whom he had invited to his rooms at midnight? Or by His Excellency who may have known of that fact? Or by Their Excellencies' daughter...
...Lennox Robinson's Drama at Inish, seen in Manhattan last year as Is Life Worth Living?, tells the story of a troupe of serious actors who completely demoralize a seaside resort, accustomed to nothing but low comedy, with stark selections from Chekhov, Strindberg, Ibsen, Turgenev. After a fortnight, murder and melancholy break out all over the impressionable community. After seeing The Father, the local butcher throws a meat ax at his wife. After seeing An Enemy of the People, the local politico votes against the Government and precipitates a national election. The proprietor of the play pavilion saves...
...GUIDE TO MODERN POLITICS-G. D. H. Cole & Margaret Cole-Knopf ($3). Handy handbook on current political systems of all nations by a studious married pair who also collaborate on murder stories...