Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oxford, Miss., a judge dismissed a jury debating the case of Negro Ellwood Higginbotham, accused of murdering a white man. After awaiting the jury's verdict for more than 24 hours, an impatient mob had hauled Negro Higginbotham out of jail, hanged him to a tree. �In Manhattan, detectives arrested Gustave Freeman when he stepped off the S. S. Ile de France, found in his trunk 100,000 French National Lottery tickets, apparently forged...
...Family Tree (RKO) is the one about Pat and Mike. Pat (James Barton) is Patrick Murphy, an aging Dublin saloonkeeper who, arriving in the U. S. to discover what has become of his son Charles, finds him running for Mayor of Central City, Iowa, and married to a social-climbing snob who has changed their name to Murfree. Mike Donovan (Addison Randall) is Charles Murfree's campaign publicity manager. It is Mike who becomes attached to Murfree's daughter Elinor but it is Pat who horrifies Mrs. Murfree by his frowzy appearance, dances an authentic jig at a political rally...
Based on the highly debatable theory that the Celtic character is the most charming and the most comical of human phenomena, His Family Tree is principally a frame for James Barton's elaborate embroideries in brogue, blarney, eye-twin-kling and jig-steps. That an obsolete comicstrip narrative is not actually offensive is due to the skill of Joel Sayre and John Twist who adapted it for the screen. Good shot: Barton's skit of a drunk trying to read a newspaper which ends when he has rolled it helplessly into a soggy ball...
...where he had a two-picture con tract which His Family Tree completes, kept photographers from meeting his train. Reason: six years ago Barton's face was badly scarred in an automobile accident. All pictures of him have to be retouched. Before he acts he uses many layers of grease paint, reshapes his nose with putty. Like all old-line troupers, he tried to take a hand in stage-managing his pictures. This brought on arguments. One day he almost quit because it seemed to him there were not enough chickens around a farmhouse set. Another time he got into...
...GINKGO TREE ? Cora Jarrett ? Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). A gothic tale of the struggle of a son and his malignant father, by the author of Night Over Pitch's Pond...