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...with stock company people. Sherry Scott (Humphrey Bogartj is the manager of a radio-chain who, in obedience to his hypocritical boss, rakes up a 20-year-old murder story as material for a serial play Sin Doesn't Pay. Glory Penbrook (Helen MacKeller) is the ex-murderess who commits suicide when the consequences of her grey past, horribly disinterred, menace her daughter's marriage. Even without the punch lines of Louis Weitzenkorn's dialog and its alien back-ground the situation is strong enough to be good entertainment for those who missed the original...
...energy that stirred women's clubs once in late years to flower-deck a murderess' transcontinental trainride bring Schoolmar'm Edith Maxwell a venue change and new trial...
...sympathizer with the average murderer or murderess, I nevertheless feel that Edith Maxwell did not receive a fair trial...
FOLLOW THE FURIES-Eleanor Carroll Chilton-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). How the child of a saintly mother and a writing father, brought up to be an emancipated creature, becomes instead a murderess and a self-damned soul. A sensitively written story that will cause no forest fire on Parnassus...
...gave Lady Macbeth in Manhattan. Audiences in both cities were equally impressed with the naivete of Comrade Shostakovich. The 28-year-old composer, who looks like a schoolboy with thatched hair and horn-rimmed glasses, had borrowed his story from Nikolai Leskov, a long-dead author who made his murderess a fiend incarnate. Shostakovich read of her crimes and promptly forgave her. Poor Katerina Izmailova! He would continue to call her Lady Macbeth but audiences were to understand that she was an innocent victim of her sordid bourgeois surroundings...