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...last he knew until he found himself, in an agony of mortal pain and bloody numbness, being trundled out of the post office on a hand truck. Clerk Werkheiser, an arm and a leg blown away, was being trundled out on another truck. The post office was a wreck??? bundles, letters, glass, splinters and debris hurled every which way. The two clerks, mangled and beyond recovery, managed to gasp out details of what had happened before they died. Three other clerks who were torn, cut and bleeding badly, and the five remaining infernal packages, still intact on the mailing counter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Italians Bearing Gifts | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...Isle of Lost Ships (First National). This is the dialog adaptation of a six-year-old picture built around the legend that there is an island in the Sargasso Sea composed of wrecked hulls. Action gets going around three survivors of the latest wreck???a girl, a man convicted of murder, a comedy detective. Occasionally effective camera work fails to make up for stolid sequences of dialog explaining the locale, or for the pathetic struggle between the hero and the scav- engers who live on the lost ships. Silliest shot: the super-scavenger being ceremoniously married to the unconscious body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...NERVOUS WRECK???Fills the great open spaces with smashed crockery; rather funnier than you'd expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 26, 1924 | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

...NERVOUS WRECK??? Hypochondriac wheezings drowned out by hilarious noise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 12, 1924 | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...NERVOUS WRECK???A farce showing the ever-reliable effect of the West on a man's backbone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Apr. 28, 1924 | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

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