Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," bold title of a play full of bold surprises and shocks, proves that its innovating poet and author in also a master of drama. The play in dramatic because it centers about a great problem seeking its solution in the career of a heroic figure. The problem in that of assertion of self as against self-effacing participation in a greater cause; of acting as against suffering...
...emotional Manhattan theorizer who has successively been a Baptist, Unitarian and Universalist preacher, and now is a New Humanist, an Extra-Sensory Perceptionist* and Euthanatist Charles Francis Potter, Dr. Tuttle's murder and attempted suicide were reasonable. He and a sizable group of other notable men believe so strongly in the right of an incurably diseased individual to have his life terminated gently that they have organized a National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia. For purposes of their propaganda the Miami incident came in handy, occurring as it did the very day after Dr. Potter first publicly announced...
...Invisible Menace (Warner Bros.) involves Boris Karloff and a job lot of studio doughboys in a murder mystery in a U. S. arsenal. Unfortunately for the film, erstwhile Bogeyman Karloff is not the menace; fortunately, he is not invisible either...
...JUDAS WINDOW-Carter Dickson -Morrow ($2). The murder of an elderly gentleman, found stabbed with an arrow in an apparently sealed room, with Sir Henry Merrivale defending a suspect caught with the corpse and a good deal of bright dialogue compensating for weaknesses in the plot. Good...
...events of the civil war following the assassination of Caesar are barely touched upon, and Caesar's ghost does not appear at all. Brutus dies almost immediately after Cassias. The play ends suddenly with its apology for its conscientious here, Brutus, and with one's impression of the murder and the tide-turning speech still vividly in mind...