Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find it hard to leave Sancho's healthy philosophy so soon. It is emphasized by the attitude of one Father Hyacinth who represents quite another view. When the plan to murder the Duke, seize his daughter and take his throne is first revealed in the little circle of plotters, one of the less hardened rebels inadvertently exclaims, "May God forgive us," whereupon Father Hyacinth remarks, "Oh, He will--I can arrange that." It is therefore surprising to find Sancho advocating tax reduction, an eight-hour day and the World Court at a time when the priests still thought they constituted...
...Whispering Wires" does not reach quite the high points of "The Bat", but it has the merit of never lagging, of wasting no time at all and of affording all the excitement that one actual murder and one near-murder can stir up in present-day barbaric theatre goers...
MONSIEUR JONQUELLE-Melville Davisson Post - Appleton ($2.00). Twelve ingenious tales in which the suave M. Jonquelle, Prefect of Police of Paris, deciphers an extraordinary cryptogram, solves an odd murder, outwits the man with steel fingers, finds the secret of the mottled butterfly, etc. A series of admirable detective puzzles, dexterously contrived...
...Steadfast Heart. Starting at the tender age of ten, our hero shoots the sheriff-in defense of his mother, of course. The rest of the picture he spends living down the murder. He goes away and becomes a newspaper reporter. As a reporter he looks rather like a second class collar advertisement. On his return to the home grounds he frustrates a man with oilless oil wells; the town and his childhood sweetheart collapse at his feet. Indifferent acting and direction shattered what started out to be a simple, sincere narrative of the type so seldom met with...
...State health officer received a letter from Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming of the U. S. Public Health Service, offering to provide a glass cage in which to incarcerate George Beaurepaire, Negro inmate of the National Leprosarium at Carville, La., while he was being tried in Criminal Court for murder...