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...soon as he was taken to St. Joseph, Mo., Killer Burke found that a half-dozen states were clamoring to try him on murder charges. Michigan wanted him for shooting down a St. Joseph policeman in cold blood while discussing a minor traffic accident, since which time Killer Burke had not been seen (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). Chicago sent a earful of detectives to apprehend him for the Moran massacre, because guns found in Burke's elaborate arsenal at St. Joseph, Mich, were identified as those used in the St. Valentine's day killings. Alias Brook, alias Burchell, alias Camp...
...Vale and Other Poems" is a slender volume. Threescore short poems and a half-dozen longer ones are all it contains, yet few collections of contemporary verse are so homogeneous. The verses, almost without exception, strike a note of gentle sadness, a tone which pervades the entire book. The title is significant. One feels that A.E. is saying farewell to all the "sweet-memoried" (to use his own phrase), things of earth. It is not an unpleasant theme, but rather one which lends an atmosphere of things long past to verses delicately and sensitively handled...
...this is wondering why all these gifts are needed. If he consults the Treasurer's reports he will see that the Library has many book funds that yield what appears to be a pretty large income each year; and if he looks back over the reports for the last half-dozen years he will further see that several new funds, some of them large, have been established in that period. Why, then, is more money needed? The answer to this natural and pertinent question is not difficult, although it falls under several heads. The Library has to cover nearly...
...translation of it in 1912), it has yet some durable qualities- wit, grace, ebullience. Viennese Joseph Schildkraut plays Anatol unevenly, not always bringing him to life. Offstage waltzes by Johann Strauss gave the play authentic Alt Wien atmosphere, which, is almost all it needs. The "plot" is merely, a half-dozen amorous episodes. unconnected except by the busy hero. Best performance is that of Patricia Collinge, subtle and wistful as a lady who might have loved Anatol but never dared. Blonde Miriam Hopkins is raucously amusing as a guzzling showgirl...
...Author. Joseph Hergesheimer, middleaged, plump, well-to-do, says writing "takes more vitality than ditch-digging. Much more." A slow starter, he worked at his stories for 14 years before he sold one. Now he is rated as one of the half-dozen leading U. S. authors. His carefully ornamented, politely civilized style usually cloaks a plot that might seem melodramatic in a more homespun dress. He lives in West Chester, Pa., is married, and is a good hand at collecting antiques. Other books: The Three Black Pennys, Java Head, Cytherea, The Bright Shawl, Linda Condon...