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...Editors. His chief pride was the first issue of the Magenta, ancestor of the Crimson. On the evening of January 25, 1873, ten members of the Class of 1874 assembled in the rooms of Mr. Cirrk. These were Eugene Nelson Aston, Samuel Belcher Clarke. Thomas Corlies, Frank Child Faulkner, George it win Haven, Edward Higginson, Charles Austin Mackintosh, Henry Childs Merwin, and Calvin Proctor Sampson...
...nowadays, since the long-awaited and long-heralded "great American novel" is in abeyance, and there is scarcely a critic who has not called "Wolf!" too many times, once again in the case of the author who fathered 'Of Time and the River.' Nevertheless, when one considers what William Faulkner could have done with one incident in Mr. Bontemp's novel--the pursuit of the leader of the revolt, the slave Gabriel, through the forests and swamps--one begins to sigh for Faulkner and Hemingway...
...testimony presented during the two days appears to boil down to the following essentials: on the night of January 16th Bjorne Faulkner disappeared. The private detective hired by Mrs. Faulkner to check up on the nocturnal activities of her spouse claims to have seen Faulkner shot by his former secretary and mistress, Karen Andre, but he can't be sure that the corpse was Faulkner because Miss Andre proceeded to push it off her penthouse roof and it got rather spread out on the pavement many stories below...
Miss Andre claims that it wasn't Faulkner whom she thrust from the roof but the already dead body of a gangster. She says that Faulkner and she were planning to start life anew in South America and, in order to start from scratch, Faulkner had decided to make the public believe that he had committed suicide; thus the byplay with the gangster's body. The state charges that it was Faulkner's body; Miss Andre holds to her version, and the jury decides...
...always been the naive conviction of this reviewer that nobody could be convicted of murder unless the body had been definitely identified or could be produced. Inasmuch as the state is unable to prove that the corpse was Faulkner's we don't exactly see how the jury could convict Miss Andre. At any rate the dialogue is well written and the play is constructed with a reasonably sure touch. The humor is of the predictable type and not particularly annoying...