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Uncommonly cool, several detectives drew steady beads on Clayton Clawson with their revolvers. "Don't shoot!" warned Clawson. "You'll all go to hell along with me!" Pow, pow, pow. Down went Clayton Clawson, neatly pinked in arms and legs. The bottle crashed to the floor, where it gave off an odor of household ammonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tough Clawson | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...best of the cycle. The story is authentic, based on the tragedy of Dr. Mudd's life. Convicted, in reality, by mob hysteria, to life imprisonment, the doctor who had unwittingly taken care of the injured John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin was sent to America's hell hole off the Florida Coast. Warner Baxter, who contributes perhaps the finest performance of his career in this picture, makes Dr. Mudd the epitome of suffering humanity. The story, ably and imaginatively directed by John Ford, is told in such a simple, straightforward manner that the somewhat fantastic melodramatic details rarely seem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/29/1936 | See Source »

...program is almost entirely manly, outdoor stuff. Second on the bill is "Fish from Hell", the log of a fishing expedition off the west coast of Mexico, featuring such gory delights as the death struggle between a whale and a sword fish. A Silly Symphony and Fox Movie tone News fill in the gaps...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/27/1936 | See Source »

...private Pullman car in New Orleans bounced red-headed Editor Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson of the Washington Herald, crowing: "I'd give everything I've got to be young and husky and a newspaper reporter. And would I be one hell-roaring reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...HELL BEYOND THE SEAS - Aage Krarup-Nielsen - Vanguard ($2.75). Ghosted account of life in the penal colony of French Guiana, illustrated by grisly photographs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Feb. 17, 1936 | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

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