Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Murder...
...that defies being cast into any of the ordinary categories of recently published books. It is a book about a religious subject, but it is not a religious book. Some might call it a mystery story, but it it written about a much nobler subject than the common mystery-murder story. It is a story about that which happened immediately following the death of Christ, written from a modern psychological viewpoint, and having elements of suspense injected into it. It stands alone among recent books...
Room 349. Among recent plays with plots based partially upon true stories are: An American Tragedy, Machinal, Spellbound, Jarnegan, Gods of the Lightning, Rope's End, Dishonored Lady. Of the true-story school also is Room 349?"a play etched from life"?which attempts to capitalize the murder of the late Arnold Rothstein, Manhattan mountebank, who was mysteriously shot in Room No. 349 of the Park Central Hotel on Nov. 4, 1928, in circumstances which suggested that he had been remiss about paying his gambling debts (TIME...
Then follows the courtroom scene in which "Sandy" Tully (Jack Hartley), good friend of the deceased, is being tried for Stromberg's murder on very thin evidence indeed. Just as a witness is about to tell all he knows, a fusillade rings out from an upper box of the theatre, thus somehow terminating the legal proceedings. Last act is a flashback to Room No. 349, a scene in which Mr. Stromberg is portrayed as being wise, powerful, philanthropic, tender. His short temper, his desire to "quit the racket" and marry Babette are given as reasons for the quarrel...
SUBWAY EXPRESS?Murder on the underground...