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...Thomasville, Ga. last week a nine-year-old girl screamed that a Negro had attacked her. Immediately a posse of 1,000 formed, followed bloodhounds to the County Stockade, a chaingang prison-camp. There the sheriff arrested five Negroes, took them before the nine-year-old for identification. She picked Willie Kirkland, 20, convict doing time for horse-stealing. The warden said Kirkland had not been out of the Stockade all that day. When Kirkland was returned to the camp, a mob of 75 gathered, including the nine-year-old's father. The sheriff decided to take his prisoner...
...LAST MILE?Ably handled prison drama (TIME...
...Philosopher, mathematician, he is great & good friend to Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, with whom he wrote Principia Mathematica, incomprehensible to laymen, to mathematicians a delight. During the War Russell's pacifist activities in the No Conscription Fellowship cost him his Cambridge lectureship, £100 fine, six months in prison. Twice married, he has two children (by his second wife), lives in Cornwall, where he conducts a school for children on his own educational principles. Clean-shaven, red-faced, he has thick white hair, seamed cheeks, a trenchant nose, a stubborn but unaggressive jaw, a wide, clear...
...very much can be said in favor of this picture: the dialogue is poor the acting is amateurish, and the directing could hardly be commended. The scenes in which the gangsters get their man or the prison riot fall far short of being convincing...
Last week the Ohio board of film censors refused to permit The Big House, Hearst (Cosmopolitan) editorial cinema designed to flay prison conditions in the U. S. (TIME, July 7), to be shown anywhere in Ohio. The board's reason: "The display of such films is harmful to the boys & girls of Ohio." Commented Chairman Henry G. Brunner of the state Democratic executive committee: "It is apparent that the state [Republican] administration fears the picture would revive interest in the Ohio penitentiary fire, costing 320 lives because it portrays overcrowding and other prison evils involved in that disaster...