Word: murders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was on July 18, 1936. Five days earlier Europe had been warned of the extent of unrest in Spain by the murder of Monarchist Deputy José Calvo Sotelo, onetime Finance Minister, at that time head of the Monarchist organization Renovatión Española. He had been taken from his Madrid apartment by uniformed Assault Guards of the Spanish Government, delivered dead to a cemetery caretaker. Sensing a big story, knowing that armed guards were patrolling Spanish cities, newshawks in Paris woke up string correspondents along the Spanish border, put in a call to Oran, in French...
Little Tough Guy (Universal) clucks its tongue sympathetically over the bitterness of a boy whose father has been convicted of murder for killing a man while helping a picket line repulse an assault by strikebreakers. But hopelessly quartered and drawn by the tugging of four wayward plot trends, it is less notable as a contribution to cinema than it is for expressing a viewpoint cinema has seldom before ventured-that there is something wrong about strikebreaking...
...young sons at home. The "thesis" lay beside his body when it was discovered last week. Excerpt: "Surely there can be no good reason for going on and maiming honest people just to eke out a living. To me general practice was just a life of mayhem and murder. ... I am not at all afraid of Death. Death is an old friend...
...Murder in the Cathedral (Sat. 7:30 p.m. CBS). The Columbia Workshop presents T. S. Eliot's verse tragedy in its entirety...
...whose brightest star was Wystan Hugh Auden. Few watchers knew, however, that in addition to writing leftish lyrics, Poet Lewis also wrote detective stories under the name of Nicholas Blake-well-plotted affairs such as There's Trouble Brewing and A Question of Proof. This week, his latest murder mystery appeared with both his name and pseudonym on the jacket. This may have been self-protection, for The Beast Must Die revolves around a writer of mystery stories whose carefully guarded pseudonym gets him into no end of trouble...