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Subsequent investigation yields nothing to Inspector Thumm and Attorney Bruno. In despair they turn to Drury Lane, a retired actor who had helped them on a criminal case before. Actor Lane is an esthetic Sherlock Holmes who quotes Shakespeare, names his servants after Shakespearean characters, lives in an Elizabethan village of his own creation, takes sunbaths in a breechcloth on an Elizabethan tower. He soon figures out who must have committed the murder, but he has a long way to go to get enough evidence for a legal conviction. Two more murders, an attempted suicide, a backtrack to a murder...
Charles Schmidt, of Paris, inspector general of the French National Archives, has been appointed exchange professor from France to lecture here during the first half of the academic year 1932-33. As exchange professor from Harvard, Paul Joseph Sachs '00, professor of Fine Arts and associate director of the Fogg Museum, will go to France for the second half year. Two other appointments and five leaves of absence were also announced as the result of a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College on Monday March...
...kept until the final unveiling of the Gray Shadow at the end of Act Three. Humor is provided by the village constable, and Joe Pepper the Taxi Driver, while Love is rather cursorily introduced by Diana Trent, the Ward of one of the villains, and Martin Scott, an inspector from the insurance company when the rest of the cast is excitedly chasing a man in a gray sheet. In fact this play has a little bit of everything. There is even a trick Ford, which when driven on the stage, proceeds to fall apart piece by piece as the comic...
...Whiteside). When an absconder turns up with the loot of an investment company to which her husband's savings are entrusted, she promptly switches her affections to him. When the absconder jumps off the lighthouse and kills himself, she steals the money and goes off with a lighthouse inspector. The whole business is strictly second-rate entertainment...
...Viceroy's next act was 100% kingly. He ordered the Government of Bombay to arrest Mr. Gandhi in the dead of night and lodge him before dawn in Yerovda Jail near Poona, where the Mahatma had twice before been imprisoned (1926, 1930). At 3 a. m. Police Commissioner Wilson, Inspector Hirst and two strapping Indian policemen climbed the tenement stairs, approached the tent with-in which Mr. Gandhi was sleeping, bearing a warrant arresting the Mahatma "for good and sufficient reasons." Under a century-old ordinance enacted in the reign of King George IV. 50 years before Britain became...