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Leaders of the Theater Workshop's "Murder in the Cathedral" made further preparation yesterday for their April production when they completed final casting of T. S. Eliot verse-play. Simultaneously the Harvard Dramatic Club continued its search for a director for its own "The Surivors" when refusal came last night from the leading prospect...
...Dastardly Crime at Midnight is made to order for the Mason treatment and after a slow start in a well-lit classroom, murder captures the sound-track. A doctor (Mason) tells his criminology class of a case of revenge, the camera reveals in flashbacks that Mason is his own subject, and that his lecture only anticipates his later actions. The original scheme, however, breaks down in practice and Mason's outlook gets blacker and blacker as complications arise between the killing and the burying. He does what he can to lose the body, but finally fails when he is persuaded...
Northside is based on the true story (TIME, Aug. 27, 1945) of one Joe Majczek, a Chicagoan charged with the murder of a policeman in 1932 and sentenced to 99 years in Stateville Penitentiary. Majczek was cleared, almost 13 years later, through the efforts of his mother and of a reporter for the Chicago Times...
...Woman's Vengeance. Jessica Tandy and Charles Boyer in Aldous Huxley's story of jealousy and murder (TIME...
Aspiring actors will have one more chance to make their bids for the 14 roles in "Murder in the Cathedral," the Theater Workshop's spring play, President Jerome T. Kilty '50 announced yesterday, as his group made plans for final tryouts tomorrow night in Phillips Brooks House...