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...point until they have obliged him by eliminating each other. Thereupon he marries Lady Jane Grey (Nova Pilbeam) to his son and has her crowned. Nine days later Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's daughter, storms into London with the northern counties at her back and ends upon the scaffold Warwick's cloudy dreaming and the brief, pitiable queenship of his daughter...
...hanging was scheduled for dawn (5:12 a. m.). By 3 a. m. the lot near the Ohio River where the scaffold was erected overflowed with 10,000 men, women and children. Hawkers squeezed their way through the crowd selling pop, hot dogs. Telephone poles and trees were festooned with spectators. By 4:30 a. m. the crowd crushed through the wire fence around the scaffold. Police had a hard time getting Phil Hanna from Illinois, whose knowledge of knots has made him a distinguished necessity at 80 hangings, to the gallows. Businesslike, he tested the trap three times, found...
...expected to be on hand next day and said it might be hard to get a seat: "I do not know what you may do for a place. For my own part. I am sure of one. You must make what shift you can." On the scaffold he bore himself so cheerfully that the parson in attendance was somewhat disgruntled. When the ax fell, the crowd groaned, and someone said: "We have not another such head...
Things still look bad, both as regards the hanging and the race, until someone has the happy idea of throwing rum-jugs into the furnace, Columbia of fire pour from the stacks and the ship leaps ahead like a wild thing. (Shot nephew mounting scaffold.) Shot of entire personnel of the Marie Lou hurling rum-jugs. One wonders who's steering the boat.) Whistles blowing, bands playing, people cheering...
...Dolph Samborski and Norman Fradd will don white knickers, to add realism, and under the stare of these sartorially perfect referees the three Varsity teams and the Jayvee eleven will stage two real games. An added touch will be the presence of Cambridge's star cinematographer atop a new scaffold, who will embalm the efforts of the heroes in celluloid, to facilitate future fault-finding and correction...