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Most U. S. citizens think of Edgar Allan Poe as a morose genius who wrote horrible stories magnificently and died of drink. Many remember that he was one. of New York's most dogmatic literary critics, that he helped invent the detective story. A few know that he was a soldier for three years, for three months a West...
...collateral reading, detective fiction is recommended, such as: Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold Bug and Murders in the Rue Morgue, William Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series. But Detective Dengler reminds his pupils: "The officer [in these stories] always wins against crooks by some superhuman effort." He warns against "disappointment...
...times however, his acting proves that he has thought out the part and made every gesture and intonation consistent with his conception of it. Ian Keith, as the half-mad, half-drunk actor-assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is as macabre and satanic as a character by Edgar Allan Poe; General Grant (E. Alyn Warren) is good too. Disappointments are the too-pious Robert E. Lee and too-coy Una Merkel as Ann Rutledge...
Journey's End. In Santa Maria, Calif, last week, Major Charles Kingsford-Smith presented his world-girdling monoplane Southern Cross to Capt. G. Allan Hancock, wealthy banker and oil operator, who had bought and loaned the plane to him for the California-Australia flight of 1928. When the Southern Cross landed safely in Australia, Capt. Hancock cabled Major Kingsford-Smith full title to it. Capt. Hancock, who took up flying as a result of his association with the Southern Cross crew, later gave Santa Maria an airport, established there an air college...
...commission (No. 13?TIME, June 16) to investigate the Shipping Board's liquidation troubles, President Hoover last week chose: Edward Nash Hurley of Chicago, onetime Shipping Board chairman; President Clarence Mott Woolley of American Radiator Co. (Allan Hoover's boss this summer); and Ira Alexander Campbell of Manhattan, famed Admiralty lawyer...