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...Debts played a major part, with "Ropy" loudly boasting that he would "pay nobody" and " 'Erbie" trying to still his outcries. In most of the Opper pictures, which were supplemented with an irrelevant editorial text. National Chairman Sanders could be found inanely interviewing such fabulous characters as Sherlock Holmes, Baron Munchausen and Robinson Crusoe on " 'Erbie's chances." Inferior as art, the Opper cartoons, by their absurdity and persistence, have been highly effective...
George Keenan Morrow resigned as chairman of Ward Baking Corp. and his brother Frederick Keenan Morrow resigned as president. The Morrows and their associates acquired control of the company from the Ralph Sherlock Kent group in 1931 after a protracted proxy battle (TIME, Feb. 16, 1931). The resignations were made in order that the Morrows can devote more time to "other interests," probably the tangled affairs of United Cigar Stores Co. of America now in bankruptcy. They suggested that Banker Charles Hayden (Hayden, Stone & Co.) be named chairman of Ward, offered to remain on the executive committee...
Subsequent investigation yields nothing to Inspector Thumm and Attorney Bruno. In despair they turn to Drury Lane, a retired actor who had helped them on a criminal case before. Actor Lane is an esthetic Sherlock Holmes who quotes Shakespeare, names his servants after Shakespearean characters, lives in an Elizabethan village of his own creation, takes sunbaths in a breechcloth on an Elizabethan tower. He soon figures out who must have committed the murder, but he has a long way to go to get enough evidence for a legal conviction. Two more murders, an attempted suicide, a backtrack to a murder...
...piece of detective work, carried along the deductive methods used by the great fiction hero Sherlock Holmes, that perhaps saved the life of an innocent woman, were described by Dr. Magrath. During a drinking party in the town of Mansfield, a man by the name of Cobb was found mortally wounded from the discharge of a shot-gun in his cellar. Cobb did not die at once, but lived to write in a legible hand "Emily did it," on the back of an envelop which he had taken from his pocket. His wife, Emily Cobb, was found unconscious...
...wont to read him into the small hours in the Presidential bed. No extremist, no strainer after gruesome effects or heart-clutching surprises, Author Fletcher tells quietly a plain and fairly plausible tale, introduces no supermen, no omniscient gods of the crime world. If you are tired of Sherlock Holmeses and their attendant Watsons you may find Author Fletcher's detectives a pleasant change...