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...theft . . . WANTED for murder . . . for kidnapping . . . for arson ADOLF HITLER

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Honored Editor | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Inspector Hornleigh (Twentieth Century-Fox), another Buy-British reprint from the Scotland Yard files, involves three murders and the theft of the British budget from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Not a patch on Scotland Yardman Ralph Richardson for verve and sass (see above), grey, efficient Cinemactor Gordon Harker is nevertheless painstaking proof that it takes all sorts of cinemen to man the Yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Lamp is Low (Mildred Bailey; Vocalion), another tuneful theft from the semi-classics-this time from Ravel's solemn Pavan for a Dead Princess. Tommy Dorsey has made a dancier version for Victor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strange Record | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...week's end the jury found Mark Megladdery guilty of soliciting and receiving a bribe, let him in for a maximum 19 years in prison. This week he goes to trial for passing bad checks, attempted grand theft. Frank Finley Merriam's chances to be the next Republican Senator from California were quoted at worse than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Duck Soup | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Carrying on in the William Powell-Myrna Loy tradition, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell succeed with little effort in becoming entangled in a theft and murder mystery. A mad whirl that includes to murders and two trips to the underworld is started by the theft of a priceless Shakespearean manuscript. As the plot swirls and eddies, our hero Joel Sloane, a dealer in rare books, emerges unscathed from an arrest by the police, an attempted seduction, and a gruesome automobile accident. But all ends happily when Joel is shot in the seat by his wife, though the title "Fast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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