Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wendel family (see below); of heart disease; in Manhattan. As attorney for the estate of Ella Wendel, he fought so ably in court that the claims of 2,295 heirs were disallowed, nine distant relatives were paid to drop contest proceedings, a dull-witted housepainter was sent to prison for posing as Ella Wendel's nephew...
...obstacle comes up to prevent a permanent union between Clayton and Tira. The manager of her circus arranges to have one of her old admirers, just released from prison, meet Clayton in pajamas when he calls at Tira's apartment. This leads to an estrangement, a breach of promise suit by Tira. In court she leers at the jury, winks at the judge, so thoroughly embarrasses character witnesses brought in to defame her that Clayton decides not to contest the case. When he calls on Tira to say that he still loves her, he suggests that they go away...
Guards in the State Penitentiary at Joliet, Ill. had to carry two murderers named Sullivan and Scott to solitary confinement when, too drunk to walk, they bellowed "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" in a cellhouse. Present but sober were Murderers Nathan Leopold, prison librarian, and Richard Loeb, who conducts a correspondence school for convicts. They said they had "just dropped in." were excused...
...labor, Ann Vickers' determination to have his child, are handled, not in the lurid manner which they might have suggested to a less conscientious director, but with almost too much dignity. At the end of the picture, when Judge Dolphin is pardoned, Ann says she is out of prison too - the prison of ambition for a selfish success. Tying the story up with this platitude does not seriously weaken what has preceded it - an intelligent study, over-solemn but affecting, of a mature woman at work and in love...
...environment from which he is emerging as an able guide to the patchwork of the U. S. scene. At 14 he ran away from home, was hobo, circus hand, cabin-boy on a whaler, sheepherder, newshawk. When he was private secretary to the Warden of Iowa's State Prison, and editing the prison magazine, one of the convicts reproved him for writing a sentimental story about a crook. Williamson took heed...