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...badgered the prosecution; gaudy, bull-necked Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, who, taunted by Dimitroff, flew into a trembling, sweating fury, shrieked: "I am not afraid of you, you rascal! You have reason to fear that I'll catch you when you're out of prison! You dirty rascal! You dirty rascal" (TIME...
...pictures made to follow the book even fairly closely, "The Count of Monte Cristo" as a film does a welcome justice to Dumas. In spite of the whispered query of the garrulous lady who came in during the prison scene, sat down behind your reviewer and with a sigh asked if this picture had anything to do with Dante's Inferno, the work of newcomer Robert Donta as Edmund Danta was refreshingly outstanding. Elissa Landi is as beautiful as ever though not very much in evidence...
...whereupon he retracted as best he could, but too late, as soon thereafter the Government took advantage of the public temper and banned the sale of absinthe. The moral of the story seems to be that soon thereafter the publisher was caught in another blackmailing scheme and sent to prison for a term of years...
BLACK MONASTERY?Aladar Kuncz? Harcourt, Brace ($2.75). On the small shelf of the world's prison literature, side by side with Feodor Dostoevsky's The House of Death and e. e. cummings' The Enormous Room, a place will be found for the late Aladar Kuncz's Black Monastery. The record of a five-year imprisonment in France during the War, this book is a subtly horrible monument to man's inhumanity to man. Superficially less gruesome than many a record of front-line fighting, its nightmarish quality develops imperceptibly, will leave most readers shaking their heads in an unsuccessful attempt...
...same day was splashed a six- column close-up picture of the bare, bloody torso of a dead gunman, punctured by 23 police bullets. Such journalistic antics were unknown on the sedate Journal while Luke Lea owned it. But with onetime Publisher Lea in a North Carolina prison, the newspaper's control has been vested in the remote, impersonal hands of New Orleans' Canal Bank & Trust Co. and the present titular owner, Nat G. Taylor, son of Tennessee's late Governor. Meanwhile the editorial staff has delighted in doing as it pleases. City Editor Minis Thomason not only wrote...