Word: paneled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desk, his throat slit. The figurine had disappeared as well as a Malay kriss which he used for a paper weight. Then Jack Derrick, who loved daughter Jean Millicent, set out to find the murderer of her father. During the process people peered through doors and curtains, a wall panel opened emitting smoke and a greenish glow, girls shrieked, the figurine shone and spoke in the darkness. Even the portrait of the late Millicent found a spectral voice...
...paintings was a Crucifixion, painted by Piero della Francesca (circa 1406-92) on a tiny wood panel (14" x 16"). Into a golden sky, grievously cracked with age, were lifted the cross, the scarlet banners of the soldiery. Humans and horses were drawn with that rude simplicity of Italian Primitives which is pronounced charming by modern sophisticates. This painting, according to gallery officials, had been appraised by experts at $800,000. The other, a similarly styled Madonna and Child by Fra Filippo Lippi (circa 1406-69), was said to have been appraised...
Seated within a three-panel screen, an old Negro pulls a red plush cord to swing open a small door and admit you to the Supreme Court of the U. S. Mounting two steps around a partition, you come abruptly into the court chamber. Facing you sit the nine Justices of the U. S. seated augustly behind their long desk-like bench. You immediately identify Chief Justice Taft, ponderous in the centre. The small semicircular chamber is dimly lighted. Faces, features, are not sharp. Level voices fall without echo in the shadows...
...American Caravan (arty anthology). A better story is entitled "A Predicament," and concerns a young priest disturbed at confessional by a drunk who thinks he is on a street car, and demands to be let off at the corner of King and Yonge. The young priest, sliding the panel between him and the drunk, recognizes the grating sound as the same noise made by the closing doors of a street car. Fearful of unseemly disturbance, uncertain what to do, he prolongs a confession at the women's panel, chides the penitent for lying, suggests that she say a little...
Wong is a Chinese character but as crooked as the letter S. He tosses a Caucasian girl behind a secret panel and in the last act gives a party at which there is a fire-eating magician. Also, in the last act, there is the San Francisco earthquake and fire. The plot deals with dope-peddling; Slippery Jim (Robert Bentley) is the chief dope-peddler; he leaves the racket and marries a pure, sweet girl. Wong is killed in the earthquake...