Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University: "Dames"--the latest and most extravagant of the musical films. Pleasant if Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, and Joan Blondell are your idea of entertainment. Also "Hat, Coat and Glove"--which is all about love and murder with Ricardo Cortez in the leading role...
...Time is the slow Kentucky '90s. Plot is concerned with a judge who is fond of his nephew who is fond of the pretty but poor white trash next door. Not until the courtroom scene discloses that a reticent, no-account town character named Gillis, once convicted of murder, is not only the young girl's father but also a great Confederate hero of the Civil War, do things come out the way they should. Mounted against crinolines and candy-pulling, Negro melodies and aging Civil War veterans, Judge Priest will bring many a tear and chortle...
Police who swarmed over Northfield's campus last week had no trouble reconstructing the murder-someone lurked on a macadam path outside the study until Headmaster Speer stood up, then fired a shotgun pointblank through the window. But of weapon, killer or motive they could find no trace...
...second feature is entitled "Hat, Coat and A Glove" and is another murder story all mixed up with a few love affairs of varying intensity. Ricardo Cortez is cast as a lawyer who is faced with the not too unusual dilemma of having to defend his wife's lover. The note of newness is added by the fact that the actual murderer is none other than Mr. Cortez himself though it all seems to have been a great surprise to him. You will no doubt be relieved to know that everything ends quite pleasantly for everybody...
...first week of his great demonstration closed, Leader Gorman said: "We make this arbitration proposal now so that further murder of our fellow-workers can be avoided. . . . We have shown the way. It is a way that has been open always. The only thing that has stood in the way has been the arrogance of the employers...