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Night Must Fall (by Emlyn Williams; Sam H. Harris, producer) is a taut, slick study in psychopathic homicide, imported from London after a 55-week run there. In a prologue, a judge denies the appeal of a man convicted of two atrocious murders, whose reenactment then follows. Act I discloses the lonely Essex household of Mrs. Bramson (May Whitty), a querulous, malingering old lady who keeps in genteel British bondage her penniless and emotionally suffocated niece Olivia (Angela Baddeley). When the maid complains of pregnancy and her seducer is called on the carpet, he turns out to be Dan (Author...
...Church as well as in Industry, hard times draw class lines taut. In the words of an anonymous informant of Dr. Benson Young Landis, writing in the National Conference of Jews & Christians News Service this week: "The liberal clergy are having a hell of a time." In New Jersey a pair of pastors who made much of their liberalism last week were having their hellish time right out in public...
Every train to the French frontier was jammed with taut-faced people. "Who are they?" a correspondent asked a station official at the frontier. "Dukes, marquises and millionaires!" replied the station official correctly...
...pilot, a good young fellow who is rapidly making his mark. There are lots of other people running about in the office and they all have their little problems too, but the important thing to note is that the weather gets very bad, the ceiling becomes zero, nerves grow taut, whirring noises arise off stage. A plane crashes and another pioneer of the ozone has gone west, if that is where the noble men of the sky go. Dizzy makes the beau geste, the grand sacrifice for friendship, chastity and the future of aviation...
...shadow her every move. The infatuated public enemy manages to harass her while eluding his pursuers and robbing a football stadium, almost ruins her romance with Melvyn Douglas before he is shot. For cinemaddicts who are not ruffled by uneven pacing and exaggerated detail, Mary Burns, Fugitive has enough taut sequences to be entertaining...