Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lost Lady (First National). That last week's major murder case was named after An American Tragedy was due less to Author Theodore Dreiser's novel than to the moving picture of it. A Lost Lady will not give the U. S. public a favorable impression of Willa Gather. Adapted from one of the few authentic masterpieces in U. S. fiction, it is a collection of stock situations which resemble neither the original nor anything else, except previous Hollywood false alarms. Worst shot: Barbara Stanwyck gardening in high heels...
...British judge suggested last week that the facts did not amount to murder. The Boer jury pondered, brought in a verdict of guilty with a recommendation for mercy. The judge sentenced Mrs. Selwyn to twelve months in jail, her servants to one month. By that time the giraffe's injury to the telegraph line had been repaired and the news went...
...simple charge, but quickly the accusations mounted: Mariani and his gang of Corsican relatives ran a secret printing press in Paris for forging automobile licenses. They operated a number of fences for stolen goods. They were embroiled in white slavery and drug peddling. Then came the first suspicion of murder. One of Mariani's dope peddlers was a mysterious Chinese known to the citizens of Lille as Fong Wang Dong. He died, apparently of tuberculosis, a few days before Mariani's arrest, blurting out at the end: "Mariani got me, but I shall be avenged...
Case of Judge Prince. Within the fortnight Papa Cheron had played in bad luck. Weeks of shouting by the opposition Press finally forced the release, against his orders, of the long-suppressed official report on the murder of Judge Albert Prince at Dijon. It filled 180 pages and proved nothing at all beyond the ability of the Gallic mind to confuse an issue...
Died. Valerian ("Val") O'Farrell, 58, private detective; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. He worked on such famed Manhattan cases as the shooting of Architect Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw, was counsel for Police Lieutenant Charles Becker who was electrocuted for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. His last job: investigator for Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt who is suing in a Manhattan Supreme Court for return of her daughter, Gloria...