Word: traps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GETTLE RESCUED UNHARMED; RAIDERS TRAP FIVE SUSPECTS...
...sense of horror ; in one Invitation to a Murder scene a rich and powerful California lady lies in a deathlike trance, shrouded, while the grisly organ music of her funeral fills her mansion. Lorinda Channing (Gale Sondergaard) feigns death with the aid of a struggling physician (Walter Abel) to trap a relative who has been trying to poison her. Returning from the tomb, she personally executes her would-be assassin, neatly shifts the blame to another. Between waves of goose-pimples, audiences have spells of apprehension lest good old Walter Abel get himself hanged for a deed...
...about a fortnight but the supply is now sufficient for three months. Whether or not the tax is passed, Col. William Cooper Procter and all the other U. S. soap makers must wait a long, long time before the last cake of tax-free soap goes down the trap in suds...
...CAUTLEY MYSTERY-A. Fielding-Kinsey ($2). Apparent greed murder, with three cousin suspects, brings Inspector Pointer to rural England. Following another murder, a trap is baited, the killer caught...
...suis trap modeste," said he with an elegant shrug, "to boast of the quality of our rum, but taste, gentlemen, taste...