Word: murderesses
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...picture of what goes on in the home of a freed murderess this play is probably most excellent. But it is indeed an unusual mind which can write this sort of drama for an evening's entertainment. The acting is so good that one cringes with rage at the doings of the mother who in her tantrums succeeds also in causing the death of her aged invalid mother. There is little to raise the play from the depths of morbid despair into which it falls. The comic relief provided by the grandmother comes at the wrong moments and the silly...
...ambulance arrived. The girl stole 1,500 francs from her dead father's wallet and spent a riotous week in Montmartre bistros, living successively with a German, a Negro, an Egyptian. She broke with each in turn when he expressed the hope that the police would catch the murderess about whom all the papers were writing. Finally a young student recognized her from her published photographs, turned her over to the police...
...tried and convicted while Paris papers ran page after page of feature articles, compared her to every famed murderess from Messalina to Beatrice Cenci. Though crowds' rioted against her outside the jail, though fellow prisoners spat hatefully at her, grey-haired President Lebrun was so moved by a last-minute plea for mercy from the mother whom she had tried to kill, that he commuted Violette Nozières' sentence last week to life imprisonment...
...businessman cast off the old Republican Adam, found himself. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST-Marcel Proust-Random House ($12.50). Proustians will want this four-volume edition of the late great Proust's magnum opus. 3 MEN DIE-Sarah Gertrude Millin- Harper ($2.50). Sombre story of a South African murderess, by the author of God's Stepchildren. Non-Fiction...
Wearing a wine-colored dressing gown and seated in the wheel chair used by Murderess Alice Lindsay Wynekoop. he was jocular about his newly trimmed hair and mustache...