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...pesky women. One of these vampires marries him while they are both in an alcoholic stupor. A second slinks dangerously in and out until murdered by a third. The wife nobly assumes the guilt, is exonerated under the unwritten law, and leaves her husband with the sobbing little murderess. Conceived by a vaudeville actress, Winnie Baldwin, this pastiche of variety show emotions and humors succeeds in being very elaborate balderdash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Madame X (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When the heroine, drunken, degraded, cast off by her husband and forbidden to see her son, screams to the bully who has beaten her that some day her son will be big enough to revenge her?when she is brought to court a murderess, too poor to hire a lawyer, and the judge appoints to defend her a handsome young man, yes, the son himself?and when the young man passionately and skillfully pleads the cause of the outcast woman?it all seems, on cool reflection, too crude to be true. But audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Female to Guillotine. Not for 41 years has the head of a woman been legally detached in France. Though murderesses have abounded, one and all have successfully pleaded: 1) Faithlessness of the murdered man; 2) Insanity; or 3) Beauty. But last week there was sentenced to the guillotine in Paris a Serbian murderess, Junka Kures, neither insane nor beautiful, and unbetrayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Queer Justice | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...masculine attire, her cropped hair. But Oklahoma Red (Wallace Beery) is a vagabond whose rules are: when he is with a gang, it is his gang; if a girl is in the gang, she is his girl. Hopping a freight with the gang to elude hawkshaws who were after Murderess Nancy, Oklahoma Red holds informal court, sentences Nancy's young hobo to be thrown off the train. The discovery of the hawkshaws on the train postpones execution of the sentence. Red uncouples the car in which the hoboes are riding and temporarily foils the hawkshaws. He continues to attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

MACHINAL-Zita Johann, a new and excellent actress, in a baldly tragic play about a murderess (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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