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...more sensible move was to rush correspondents to the city prison where Police Chief Rudolph Diehls showed them various Communist leaders that had been reported beaten to death, executed or exiled at different times in the past week. In the first cell sat Ernst Thalmann, Communist candidate for President in last year's election (TIME, April 18, 1932). Like a guide, in the zoo the Police Chief orated...
...large number of movies in the last few years have stated by portraying life in the open world and have ended tragically by moving the actors to a different set, that of a prison. "Pick Up" reverses the procedure. Yet as the curtain is to be drawn, it gets, into a predicament which is also banal; a melodramatic and implausible trial scene...
...larks compared to what happens when Giovanni is at the front. He is brought down in an air fight over enemy terrain. Thinking he is dead, Angela studies to be a nun. Giovanni recovers but gets caught trying to walk back to Italy. By the time he escapes prison camp, Angela has taken her vow of chastity. Giovanni pleads with her to break it. She has no sooner convinced him that this is impossible than a bomb drops on Giovanni. This time he is really done...
Executed. Joe Zangara, 33, assassin of Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak; at 9:17 a. m. March 20 in the State Prison electric chair in Raiford, Fla. In the death room he spat, "Lousy capitalists. No scared of chair. . . . What! Nobody take pictures?" He half-said, "Good-by," when the current jolted through...
...TRAGEDY OF Z-Barnaby Ross- Viking ($2). Thumm's girl and Drury Lane follow a grafter's death to prison walls; false justice averted by a narrow margin...