Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buzzard. John Collier was dead. Of that there could be no doubt whatever. But the members of the cast of Broadway's newest murder play thought that if they pretended John Collier was still alive, his murderer would reappear to investigate. So they pretended, as hard as and as long as they could. Now and again, some one of them would claim to be the culprit until at last the true culprit admitted her identity. Then the audience, which had begun to imagine that it would have to wait for a death bed confession, trooped wearily away. There...
Killers. This melodrama has a message. Act I (common-place): murder is committed in the back room of a speakeasy. Act II (excellent): a jury blunders through the process of finding the wrong person guilty. Act III (bewildering): prisoners jabber in jail, attempt a mass escape with much pistol spitting. Act IV (stupid): how to get an electric chair ready and a last-minute confession...
...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-in the courtroom, a pretty girl gets away with murder (TIME...
...Furies. Murder, for playwrights' profit, is usually a sordid affair, committed in the first act and for no better reason than to provide a culprit for the conjuring author to produce in the last. Not so for Zoe Akins, who wrote The Furies. The news arrives, it is true, in the first act, that somebody has shot John Sands. The second act is given over almost entirely to heartless catechism conducted by a district attorney. The third finds Fifi Sands imprisoned in a skyscraper apartment with the lunatic who, because he had loved Fift and was afraid...
...Americans are the most lawless people that I have ever seen," he continued on another strain. "I have been following the papers regularly, a murder here, and a murder there, murders everywhere. And if they are not acquitted they hang, two years later. In England it is done in two to three weeks, no longer than the time taken to empanel a jury in this country...