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John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at the instigation of Pope Pius IX.
Since "China Seas" Hollywood has been using its best brains to create unusual and romantic melodramas. "The Prisoner of Shark Island" is undoubtedly one of the best of the cycle. The story is authentic, based on the tragedy of Dr. Mudd's life. Convicted, in reality, by mob hysteria, to...
The Prisoner of Shark Island (Twentieth Century-Fox). Suggested to Producer Darryl Zanuck by a story in TIME (Feb. 4, 1935), this picture investigates the sad case of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd. On April 15, 1865, two horsemen galloped up to Dr. Mudd's door in Charles County, Md...
One day last spring, the disgruntled directors motored to Pacific Portland Cement Co.'s nearby plant to arrange for reconditioning the track surface with new soil and oystershells. Instead of this stock remedy, the company's chief agronomist, white-thatched, red-faced James Wilkes Jones, advised treating the...
*Producer Zanuck got his idea for this picture from TIME'S story on the life of the Maryland physician who served a prison term for doctoring John Wilkes Booth immediately after the assassination of Lincoln (TIME, Feb. 4 & March 18). *"Annie Oakleys'' arc so called because holes...