Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Double Crossroads (Universal). That it is plotty and thoroughly unreal does not keep this little crook-story from being a fair program picture. It tells how a racketeer, just out of prison, decides to go straight on falling in love with a country girl and changes his mind when he finds out she is crooked too. The complications, which reach their climax in a party given at the house of the rich woman whom the gang is out to rob, are made tolerable by their occasional humor and the acting of able bit-characters. Best shot: a sweet old lady...
...Shanghai, Dyung Kyong-Sung was discharged by his master for failing to wash behind his ears. Enraged, Dyung Kyong-Sung killed his master's dog, stole his clothes, was sent to prison for six months...
Readers of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Beheld this box over the Eagle's frontpage story of Ohio's prison holocaust early last week. The Eagle's account was by the Associated Press. The most gruesome detail (in a description of the deaths of over 300 men by fire) which the Eagle permitted itself to print was this: "Fire and smoke both claimed the lives of the convicts who perished...
Zechariah Chafee, professor in the Harvard Law School, will preside at the dinner, which is scheduled for 6.30 o'clock. Following the dinner K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, will speak on the subject, "Does Evolution Justify Capital Punishment," and Father Spence Burton, former chaplain at San Quentin Prison, will discuss the experiences of "A Prison Chaplain in the Death House...
Exile Leo Davidovich Bronstem thinks the part he has played in Russia's affairs an honest, able, ill-requited one; thinks the rest of Russia is now out of step. But he is philosophical, quotes Revolutionist Pierre Joseph Proudhon's (1809-65) words from prison: "Destiny-I laugh at it; and as for men, they are too ignorant, too enslaved for me to feel annoyed at them...