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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room structure with a thatched roof, one door.-ED. Judge Lynch Sirs: I have just read Negro White's "Judge Lynch." What a dirty lot of lies. I have read a number of articles by both white and black, but never has my blood boiled before. I think if anyone ever needed a coat of tar and feathers its the author of "Judge Lynch." Yes, we do lynch the Negro in the South. Some day the North will be sorry they didn't try the same cure for certain things that the Negro knows will cost...
...well-balanced Southerner hopes that lynchings of Negroes will increase rather than decrease, that Cracker fiendishness and cruelty (N.A.A.C.P. terms) will never diminish, that persecution, prosecution of and fury against the Negro will prevail until their numbers are eliminated or substantially reduced, and preferably exterminated...
More objectively treated, it would have been great. Reverence weighs it down and makes it dull. The characters act pompously, as though never forgetting for a second that the things they are doing are described in all history books. Routine shots: Eugene Kloepfer as Luther writing his theses against indulgences-arguing before the Diet at Worms. Two Weeks Off (First National). Without being particularly original or ambitious, this account of Dorothy Mackaill's affection for a plumber masquerading as a famed actor has a nice flavor. More than half of it is silent, and the long stretches of agreeable...
...murders of "Jack the Ripper." Suddenly in a great crowd of people a child or a young girl would be found murdered and mutilated with a knife. No one ever saw "Jack." The C. I. D. and Policeman Wensley gradually caught his accomplices but "Jack the Ripper" never was found. Timid English women still stiffen and pale when strange men address them in Whitechapel...
After two years. Policeman Wensley was made a detective. Courteous to the worst of crooks, he received their respect in return. He was never known to arrest a criminal while he was at a meal. Famed Wensley crime-solutions were...