Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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After Act I the psychological exposé of these diseased characters turns into a pretty fair murder mystery. On the evening of his first try at playacting, the novelist is found shot in his hotel bed room. Suspected are a whole stageful of sophisticates, including the novelist's mistress, a South American general, a shy French playwright, brilliantly acted by Austrian Oscar Karlweis, and a fat, macabre play director, who threatens just before the body is found: "I'll club him to death with his own truss." Crime Club members may get to thinking about the denouement...
...Federal Prison in Mexico City. Belonging to an order of nuns whose vows are not perpetual, she was presently released, married another prisoner who had been sentenced for a previous attempt on Obregon. A priest, Father Jose Jimenez, also serving a term, for complicity in the Obregon murder, performed the ceremony. Fortnight ago, the pressure of popular opinion and the hard work of her previously released husband induced new President General Manuel Avila Camacho, who wants to be friends with the Church, to commute her term. As her fellow prisoners waved tearful farewells and the Mexican press broke into congratulatory...
...people to support an average of four dependents apiece for four years, Federal Theatre fulfilled its purpose: relief. In the process it made many original contributions to theatre art. Among them were its productions of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and T. S. Eliot's religious drama Murder in the Cathedral, the Negro Swing Mikado, etc. But Hallie Flanagan is especially proud of the socio-esthetic achievement as a whole, of the fact that millions were given a wide gamut of drama from Euripides to O'Neill, as well as musical comedies, pageants, ballets, puppet shows, children...
...receipts were meeting all expenses-costumes, scenery, lighting, royalties, advertising-except labor. It was killed by Congress in June 1939. Like almost every enterprise, public or private, at the time, Federal Theatre had its radical elements. But an almost Neanderthal illiteracy played a part in Federal Theatre's murder. In the Dies Committee's hearings Representative Joe Starnes of Alabama said to Hallie Flanagan : "You are quoting from this Marlowe. Is he a Communist?" On the Senate floor, Senator Robert Reynolds of North Carolina gave a list of plays presented by Federal Theatre that "definitely bear the trademark...
...companion piece at the Met is "Murder Over New York," in which a new Charlie Chan tangles with a sabotage gang. The new Charlie runs as strongly to proverbs as did his predecessor, Warner Oland, but the late, unlamented fad of "Confucius Say's" has removed most of the punch from Oriental witticisms...