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MACHINAL−Important episodes in the life of a murderess−proving that actions, louder than words, are sometimes equally inexpressive (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Interviewed by reporters, would-be-dancing-murderess Manzano admitted the plot, gave love for Bomber Balda as a reason for her implication, denied that Mother Concepcion had attended meetings. Said Balda, in exoneration of the clergy, "I alone am responsible for my actions." Toral hinted that he had been inspired, but not incited, by the nun. Mother Concepcion, herself, explained that four years ago cruel laws had driven her from her convent, and that her house had become a centre where people liked to gather for spiritual consolation, denied that she had ever counselled violence, threw open her blue prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Nun's Tale | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...sometimes flung their lines about with just such misplaced vigor as a hammer thrower might use in hurling a toy balloon; they reached for comedy like a first baseman trying to catch a butterfly. Josephine Hull played Mrs. Rodney with great cunning, while Dorothy Stickney, who was a mad murderess in Chicago, brought down cheers for making Claudia Kitts as raucous as a finger nail dragged across a blackboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...glorious Greenwich models. While it is dernier cri in New York smartness, the closest glimpse one gets of the notorious Village is a night club whose snaky denizens seem to be suffering from the effects of the last rehearsals. Indeed, it takes "Roxie", Chicago's most successful woman murderess, to start things in the night club as well as in the "Follies...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/26/1928 | See Source »

...LETTER-Katharine Cornell devotes more than enough talent to explain the motives of a murderess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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