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Adam Had Two Sons finds good Actor Paul Kelly (Bad Girl) in bad company. He and his brother have escaped from a California prison to Panama. There they fall in love with one Teresa (Raquel Torres, one of the cinema's Mexican girls). Follows some shooting, a flight by boat, fraternal sacrifice and, after two hours, the blessed surcease of a final curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 1, 1932 | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...Frank Craven) and notably high high-comedy acting (by little Ernest Truex). A sort of mystery play to end all mystery plays, it relates the adventures of a detective fictioneer who unexpectedly becomes embroiled with a gang of criminals. A fabricator of "more drugs for the drug stores," Actor Truex boasts to his burly acquaintances that he knows how to commit the perfect crime. His method is to secrete poison in the victim's toothpaste. Thereupon the criminals make Mr. Truex test his notion on a stool pigeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 1, 1932 | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...good, but that was a long time ago. Since then he has shouldered his way along, smashing chairs, threatening women, killing men with his fists, breaking banks, and appearing in movies with such robust titles as "The Wolf of Wall Street." He has become very much of a ham actor. In his last work, hailed as a mighty picture by a mighty star, the producers have made the punishment fit the crime. "Rich Man's Folly", now at the University, is a thoroughly bad picture...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/20/1932 | See Source »

Never No More. A lynching is now taking place in Manhattan's Hudson Theatre eight times a week. It could scarcely be more horrible if Negro Actor Rudolph Toombs were actually killed. Nor could Actor Toombs scream more terrifyingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 18, 1932 | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

Born. To Donald Ogden Stewart, 37, author, actor, and Mrs. Beatrice Ames Stewart; a second son; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. 10 oz. Name: Donald Ogden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 18, 1932 | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

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