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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Safe in Hell (First National) is routine death-before-dishonor melodrama except that in most such cases it is considered against the rules for either death or dishonor, no matter how imminent they may be, actually to occur. This time a streetwalker has escaped from New Orleans to an unnamed island to avoid the legal penalty for a murder which she thinks she has committed. She (Dorothy Mackaill), finds herself in a quandary. She can either accept the attentions of a greasy jail-warden, or allow him to give evidence that will cause her to be killed before her husband...
Philadelphia, Dec. 13.--Despite prevailing conditions, college enrollment is still on the increase, Raymond Walters, dean of Swarthmore College, said today in his annual review of college attendance. Where attendance has fallen off, it can be shown to occur in colleges with less than 500 students...
...chamber or the scalping knife," but so long as such a nation as the Japanese cling to old fashioned methods, the fact will have to be faced. It is doubtful if even this country, with its pacifistic traditions, is prepared for total disarmament. The abolition of war will hardly occur until public opinion is educated up to it. It will be time enough to abolish the name of the Department of War when the thing itself is abolished...
James Cagney was born over a saloon owned and run by his father in a Manhattan slum. By the time he reached high school he had started that series of heterogeneous occupations which occur painfully at the outset of many a cinematic career. He was a copy boy for the New York Sun; a department store bundle-wrapper; a librarian; a neophyte painter. He left Columbia University to be a chorus boy. From this traditionally effeminate occupation, he presently was graduated to vaudeville, musical comedy (Grand Street Follies)., legitimate plays (Women Go on Forever and Outside Looking In for which...
...Haven, December 9 Rumorn that a drastic change might occur in the personnel of the coaching staff of Yale football were definitely not at rest tonight with announcement by the Yale athletic authorities that Dr. Marvin A. Stevens would return as head coach of the Yale team in 1932. Stevens will be assisted by Adam Walsh and Charles A. Commerford...