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...defendant was an attractive Polish woman named Mrs. Dorothy Mysza Pollak, 26, who shot her husband in the -eye. Recalling the devastating satire in Maurine Watkins' play Chicago, in which blonde Roxie Hart was in a somewhat similar plight, Chicago newspapers took satire into their own hands, tagged Mrs. Pollak as "Chicago's most beautiful slayer...
Tribune and Post printed comparatively restrained reports. But the Daily News and Hearst's Herald & Examiner scarcely tried to conceal their evident belief that Mrs. Pollak's efforts to escape punishment were as ludicrous and hilarious as Roxie Hart's, also as empty of merit and as likely to succeed. The Herald & Examiner assigned its cinema reviewer, Carol Frink, to cover the trial as she might cover a comic melodrama...
...elements of the case easily lent themselves to burlesque. Mrs. Pollak, who wore her long bobbed hair curled at the ends Garbo-wise, had been married three years to Joseph Pollak, back-of-the-stockyards bootlegger and money lender. She suspected him of philandering with a Mrs. Julia Cebulski. One afternoon last July Mrs. Pollak was unable to locate either her husband or Mrs. Cebulski. When her husband returned to the flat that evening she shot him. Said she afterward: "That was a dirty trick I did to poor...
...carried a Chicago audience reverently through Wagner's famed Temptation Scene wherein Parsifal, purest of fools, resists and reforms her. No one denied that Frida Leider had able assistance from a good cast that included René Maison as Parsifal and Alexander Kipnis as Gurnemanz. from Maestro Egon Pollak's orchestra, from a reverent audience that had bought every one of the 75?-$4 seats.* But so well did she sing & act that most of those who saw & heard her were far more interested in Kundry's screaming, crawling, writhing, seducing, sobbing than in the allegory...
Budd Emile Pollak, of New York, New York...