Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queer People (by John Floyd; Galen Bogue, producer) has a queer history. Four years ago, Carroll and Garrett Graham, brothers who had worked on Los Angeles newspapers and in Hollywood studios, wrote the book from which the play was adapted. As a novel, Queer People seemed to Will Hays so raw that he forbade Producer Howard Hughes to turn it into cinema. The publicity which the incident gave the book helped Galen Bogue last week to bill Hal Skelly "in the lovable and immortal role of 'Whitey...
...President still retains some grip on the State was seen when he appointed Lieut.-General Baron von Fritsch, an army officer of the old school, to be Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr, thus spiking rumors that the German Army would be turned over to that arrant Nazi queer, Captain Ernst Roehm, Generalissimo of Storm Troops...
...their own, are not the traditional puppets with which a tired school of reading and writing has been content. They give the impression of three-dimensional figures whose background takes in far more than the few pages of their story; they act and talk unbookishly, with the hard, queer inconsequence of real life...
...Nick's, has awkwardly disappeared just when his secretary-mistress has been murdered. Wynant's lawyer, Wynant's remarried ex-wife both want him found, think Nick is the man for the job. But Nick is having too good a time, knows and dislikes the queer Wynant family too well-until a gunman breaks into his hotel room early one morning to crease him with a bullet. Then he gets grudgingly busy. Before Wynant is found, two more murders are uncovered. More conventional in plot than his earlier books and less slaughterous (Red Harvest had at least...
...Party who heckled Premier Göring into a jittery rage during the trial, looked confident. Judge Bünger read the Supreme Court's verdict slowly. Much of it was a denunciation of what he called "those senseless legends": the legend that Van der Lubbe was the queer tool of queer Nazis who used and helped him to set the fire; the legend that Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, now Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, conceived the idea of firing the Reichstag, blaming Communists for the deed and using it as the excuse for Chancellor Hitler's suppression...