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VERDICT OF TWELVE-Raymond Post-gate-Crime Club ($2). In the trial of Mrs. van Beer for the poisoning of her nephew, the verdict has nothing to do with the evidence. It is formed out of the past lives of the jurors themselves-among them a murderess, a religious fanatic, a Greek who pretends he was born to the Old School...
Ladies in Retirement. A good, hard hitting English melodrama, with Flora Robson making a name for herself as a murderess (TIME, April...
...with its predecessor, for it is not; but on the other hand this latest attempt will doubtless be even more popular because of the delightful humor that has been skillfully interwoven with the story. Fredric March, as Sam Wye, expert detective, is put on the trail of Joan Bennett, murderess, because of his peculiar fascination for beautiful women. Constantly harassed by Ann Sothern who, as "Dr. Livingston," easily walks away with the acting honors, and Ralph Bellamy, as an incredibly stupid detective, he traces her half way around the world and, of course, falls madly in love with her once...
First woman sentenced to death in Ohio was Mrs. Julia Maude Lowther in 1931. She pleaded guilty in a second trial, got off with a life sentence. Second Ohio death sentence for a murderess was imposed last week on a plump and pretty 31-year-old Bavarian blonde named Mrs. Anna Marie Filser Hahn. Crime of which a Cincinnati jury of 11 women and one man found Mrs. Hahn guilty was poisoning a 78-year-old German-American named Jacob Wagner with arsenic and croton...
...allies are sociological contemporaries of the brontosaurus. A lazy neutral, Actor Webb twits grandfather's associates by inquiring if they think it quite sanitary, not to change their convictions more than twice a year. For the lower orders he has no more reverence, observing that a hammer murderess has got exactly what she deserves-three weeks in vaudeville...