Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persons believe that from the point of view of the United States the press took the affair too seriously. It is true that the New York Times sent Birchall from Berlin, but he was countered by Hearst's Pulitzer Prize winner H. R. Knickerbocker, who wire-lessed in his murder trial style that, "Kneeling for ten minutes at a time was not too agreeable to the royal pair, especially Elizabeth, who is now inclined to be portly...
Drawn from Emyln William's stage shocker, the picture is finely filmed and avoids the whodunit pitfalls of most murder stories by the sympathetic performances of its cast. Robert Montgomery is splendid as the killer, and although Rosalind Russel's portrayal of combined fascination and revulsion is rather unpleasant to behold, her performance is excellent. Dane May Whitty is excellent as an unsuspecting hypochondriac, but Merle Tottenham ad Kathleen Harrison lay on the cockney a little too thickly...
Twenty-five years after Cresap's death, Thomas Jefferson published his Notes on Virginia. In them he criticized the white settlers for their inhuman treatment of Indians and he used as an illustration the alleged murder of a friendly Indian family by Captain Michael Cresap. That charge has been answered time and again. First by John Jacobs in 1820, second by Brantz Mayer, a Baltimore lawyer, in 1851, and finally by Professor James A. James, of Northwestern University, in his life of George Rogers Clark. Dr. James discovered that George Rogers Clark and Captain Cresap were together...
...BURNING COURT-by John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). Skilfully written, highly improbable murder mingled with Black Magic in a Philadelphia suburb...
...UPSIDE DOWN MURDERS-Hugh Austin-Crime Club ($2). Feeble account of murder in an amusement park, with a distinctly trick ending...