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Deprived of the use of the Germanic Museum for its spring production, the Theater Workshop yesterday junked plans for "Murder in the Cathedral," and in its place substituted Shakespeare's "Richard II," after the University had made Sanders Theater available for the week of April...
...Woman's Vengeance. Jessica Tandy and Charles Boyer in Aldous Huxley's story of jealousy and murder (TIME...
...died, Constable Edgar mumbled a name. Scotland Yard went into high gear: it cancelled all leaves, issued extraordinary (and temporary) permission for sleuths to carry guns. Four days later, the Yard's men tracked down suspected Burglar Donald George Thomas in a boardinghouse, arrested him for the murder of Constable Edgar...
State fire inspectors ruled another University building unfit for public gatherings yesterday as the Germanic Museum's large hall, scheduled scene for the April production of "Murder in the Cathedral," was found to be unsafe for any large audience. A lack of proper emergency exists and insufficient lighting circuits were the main factors in the State board's decision, which followed a similar pre-Christmas ruling on Sanders Theatre...
Catering to the public love of murder was one of the things which made Hearstling Damon Runyon's name a byword of the '20s and '30s. Trials and Other Tribulations reprints his grandstand reports of three notorious murder trials (Hall-Mills, Snyder-Gray, Arnold Rothstein), plus the spicy matrimonial case of "Daddy" and "Peaches" Browning, the suit for income tax that sent Al Capone to Alcatraz, and the Senate investigation of the House of Morgan (complete with midget). Last but not least, the reader will have ample opportunity to put Runyon himself on trial and observe...