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...Italian consul, Amadeo Barletta, to break the tobacco monopoly of the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. It was lèse majesté against Benito Mussolini, a greater dictator than Trujillo, when Trujillo clapped Barletta into jail and confiscated his tobacco company on dubious charges of an assassination plot (TIME, May 13). Last week a third and greater act of lèse majesté was in the making, as Mussolini moved to get his consul out of jail...
...been kept in prison since his birth, at 24 (when Catherine went to visit him) had never seen a woman. Of Catherine's complicity in his murder, says Biographer Kaus, there is no scrap of proof, but she thinks Catherine may well have been in on the plot...
...Josef Pilsudski, Socialist, was an exile in Siberia, charged with complicity in a plot to assassinate Alexander III. One of the leaders of the plot was the elder brother of Nikolai Lenin, who was hanged. Exile Pilsudski was well treated by his Russian guards, even allowed to go hunting with a double-barreled shotgun...
Spreading the argot of the modern newspaper against a Roman background, Mr. Irwin produces a world which, if you choose to have it so, is very real. Certain it is that an appreciative reader can become so engrossed in the intricate though ancient plot that the spontaneously exclaimed "Dixisti" will not bring forth a chuckle until the ridiculousness of the situation slowly sinks...
...both films, however, the plot is trivial, trite, and distinctly unlikely. In both the chief reason d'etre consists of "thrill scenes" such as plane crackups and mysterious murders and of the clowning provided by Beery and Joe Bags in one movie and by Miss Collier in the other...