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...18th Century French republicans celebrated July 14, the day the destruction of the Bastille commenced, so last week in all the little hotels of Montmartre the loose ladies of Paris celebrated the destruction of another prison almost as old: St. Lazare, handed over to the wreckers Aug. 9. For 141 years the vermin-ridden prison on the Rue du Faubourg St. Denis, built on the site of the still more ancient leprosery of St. Lazare, has held France's women prisoners, specially harlots. One of St. Lazare's first notable prisoners was Charlotte Corday, bath-stabber of Terrorist...
...sprang up to demand if Quartermaster Henriet was related to the von Gayls of East Prussia. He was. The whole case was reported to the Kaiser by the Grand Duchess of Baden, friend of the family, and the sentences of all 15 men were commuted to internment in a prison camp...
...volunteer fire brigade, its lawless Five Points where "leather-hats" (police) never dared venture, its daring real-estate ventures into the open farming country of East 52nd Street. Author Komroff lugs in few historical buried treasures to deck his dime museum. One of them: that the original Tombs prison was so called "because its plan & architecture were inspired by a picture in a popular book of the time called Stevens' Travels. The author of the book was John L. Stevens, Esq. of Hoboken, N. J., and the picture was one of a building in Thebes and because...
...Last Mile (World Wide) is a querulous picture of life in the deathhouse. John Wexley's play, based on a deathhouse convict's actual diary and news reports of several prison breaks, was angrily realistic. The cinema has omitted the anger and realism, added hope rays and a new plot...
...friend Phillips has been proved innocent, will be reprieved if they all surrender. Foster agrees for the sake of the picture's plot, walks out into the guards' hail of bullets. Most of the harsh ironies of the play, such as the scene between the "Killer"' and the prison chaplain, are omitted...