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Frank & Bitter. There are only five actors in O'Neill's new play, and three of them carry the whole of it. The three: James Dunn as a drunken bachelor landlord; Mary Welch as a big Connecticut hill girl; J. M. Kerrigan as her conniving, Irish tenant farmer father. The play tells of Dunn's blind quest for redemption from a hell of liquor and women; of Miss Welch's efforts to make him happy and to alleviate her own hell as an outsized woman; of her father's willingness to make something...
...Cleveland, a landlord named Arthur Clark hit on a novel way of evicting tenants who refused to pay more than OPA rents. He hired a gang of thugs, equipped them with pistols, blackjacks, clubs and a baseball bat, sicked them on his tenants. One tenant died of a cracked skull. Last week Clark and one thug were convicted of second-degree murder, sentenced to life imprisonment...
After the body of Leon McAtee, a Negro tenant farmer, was found floating in a bayou one day last July, five white men were charged with his murder (TIME, Aug. 12). Last week, at Lexington, their trial was held. The judge freed two; the jury took four minutes to acquit the others...
Burned Up. In Tulsa, police seized a landlord who set fire to his property to burn a tenant...
...trail of lynch law led from the mob murder of four Negroes on a lonely Georgia roadside (TIME, Aug. 5) to a Mississippi bayou deep in the land of Bilbo. There it was marked by the battered corpse of a Negro tenant farmer floating in the scum...