Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mariniere is outward bound. Yet in her salon no jesting cynic twinkles at Haig and Haig across a mahogany bar. La Mariniere is a prison ship and she has no room for jests. But there are cynics on her passenger lists, men who have tasted the wine of life and have eaten its dust, men outward bound for French Guiana and hell...
...Republic of France is amused by anachronisms. And La Mariniere is an anachronism. A prison ship sailing modern seas, is it not intriguing? Perhaps some Wilde will picture another bit of blue these voyageurs call their sky: perhaps some Lovelace will discover for them that even the penal isolation of French Guiana is not a cage. La Mariniere sails on. Classicists and romanticists, cynics and cooks, these branded brethren of despair continue their one determined and certain route. Outward bound delightful trip, and on the government. Bon voyage...
...wish I could start my sentence right now, for the sooner I start the sooner I shall be free. Every day I am out now counts one more at the other end." Two days later he entered the prison again...
...actress. It may be stated without reserve that Miss Johnstone is the most beautiful blond leading woman in the land. She is not the best actress, but she is easily good enough for this inconspicuous little crook play. Miss Johnstone plays the fiancee of a young man with a prison record. Practically the entire remainder of the cast is bent upon hurling him back to the gaol. A diamond necklace is stolen and things look pretty sour for him. But he picks the very necklace out of the chief detective's pocket just in time for the final happy curtain...
...December, 1924). Last January the Public Prosecutor finally had him indicted on nine counts for the conversion of 635,000 kronen ($165,000). By jury trial last week he was found guilty of fraudulently converting 182,000 kronen ($47,320) of charity funds and sentenced to three months in prison. Other charges were not supported or were withdrawn...