Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notwithstanding that he had just won the civil war for the Reds and continued until 1925 as Commissar of the Red Army, which he created. In more recent times Yagoda, acting under orders from Trotsky, caused three of Russia's most eminent physicians and scientists to murder outright or hasten the deaths of 1) famed Writer Maxim Gorky; 2) Yagoda's predecessor as secret police chief, Menzhinsky, and 3) Kuibishev, who was chief of the First Five-Year Plan...
...catching up on my loafing at the Met when along comes this flicker which one and all are referring to as "A Slight Case of Murder." I open up my peepers and wonder whether I will feel blow-hot-blow-cold about this one like I am about its co-feature which I have just waded through--an operatic affair dubbed "Romance in the Dark," which has somewhat to do with two Johns called Boles and Barrymore and a Gladys whose last handle is Swarthout. I make a note that I will give that one the bird in my review...
This play, despite the social axe it has to grind, is pretty much of the famous old black-and-white melodrama. Wall Street is perhaps the real villain, and it is indicted for the murder of all its speculators and their souls. But the old veteran bull, Nicholas Vanalstyne, though he relishes smashing his enemies, wouldn't think of leaving an orphan or a widow dispossessed by him to suffer in penury. His son, heir, and namesake, however, is a rotter pure and simple. He has lived in sin, but he throws the odium of the crime on his innocent...
Impressionist painters usually limited themselves to visual sensations, but their successors have tried to get into painting every kind of sensation from lightheadedness to a desire for bloody murder. This is one reason why contemporary painting in general shows distortions which once belonged only to caricature or ineptitude. Last week an interesting U. S. distorter, Philip Evergood, had his first one-man show in three and a half years at Manhattan's A. C. A. Gallery...
Last week a play was produced in one prison while its author languished in another. At Sing Sing, Taken from Life unwound through 22 scenes, involved a murder defendant whose guilt or innocence the audience was pointedly asked to judge. In Tombs Prison in Manhattan, Playwright Arthur Chalmers, also charged with murder, still had ahead of him the verdict of a more orthodox jury...