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Brave and British to the core is 19-year-old Mrs. Kenneth Pawley of Newchang on the Japanese South Manchuria Railway. Several weeks ago Chinese bandits kidnapped Mrs. Pawley (a bride of three months), her two dogs (an Irish setter and an Alsatian) and one Mr. Corkran who calls Mrs. Pawley "Tinko." Last week anxious friends received a grimy ransom note, demanding $100,000 mex. (about $30,000), failing which Mrs. Pawley's and Mr. Corkran's ears would be cut off. Appended was a postscript from Mrs. Pawley...
Three days later the Pawley kidnapping took a dramatic turn. Mrs. Pawley's big Alsatian escaped and, footsore and half-starved, found his way back to the home of her father, where he barked and barked. A frightened peasant reported that he had seen Mrs. Pawley hidden in a hut only 30 miles from Newchang, that she was well treated, but needed food. It was a great chance for Japanese authorities to show how much they are needed in Manchuria. The British Consul General in Mukden and Japanese Commander-in-Chief General Muto held several conferences, finally decided...
...Tinko [Mrs. Pawley] is wonderfully brave and cheery, but she can't stand this sort of thing forever. We've done nothing but eat and sleep for a week. We are filthy and bored stiff, but we're both fit and well treated...
...electric chair Elliott Lester's murderer reviews his life, thereby cutting 58 seconds from the record established by Maxwell Bodenheim in a novel (Sixty Seconds) in 1929. Nineteen scenes pass through his mind; at the end of them he is dead. The unfortunate killer is one John Allen (Edward Pawley), steel worker atop a skyscraper. He looks down pityingly on the "flies" beneath. Then he descends, marries a taxi-dancer (Blyth Daly), becomes a fly himself. Up high again, he resents things said about his wife by his good friend Bud Clark (Preston Foster) and in an argument Bud falls...
...Edward Pawley's acting, Cleon Throck-morton's fast-moving sets, Egon Brecher's wise direction, the novelty of the idea for the stage make Two Seconds interesting, sometimes impressive. The electrocution in the prolog gives the subsequent action some of the grim inevitableness of last season's The Last Mile...