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...crime to his father (Lionel Atwill). A swift chain of circumstance compels Mr. Atwill to assume the role of defendant. During his trial, which is accompanied by some adroit British sarcasm from the bench, he begins to crack. Harried by the King's Counsel, who patiently sets his trap and then springs it with heroic crescendo, Actor Atwill breaks down, screams: "I did it! I did it! I did it!" This part of the play is done so well that spectators almost forget that Mr. Atwill still has three scenes left in which to prove himself innocent. Kay Strozzi (real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 6, 1931 | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...Zion Trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Also In This Issue, Mar. 30, 1931 | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...there is another newsworthy restriction, one which we, in this locality, associate with Zion City even more closely than the blatant overseer himself. Many people carry the association in their minds because they have paid dearly for a bit of experience. Let unknowing motorists beware of the speed trap which is one of Zion's most productive institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Also In This Issue, Mar. 30, 1931 | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...carried messages for convicts and, knowingly or not, had been instrumental in a jail delivery plot." Chaplain Whitmeyer resigned three days after the thwarted escape. Said he: "I resigned because I was the man who disclosed the plans for the attempted prison escape, only to have the guards deliberately trap and shoot these three men after they had been allowed to climb down the outer wall. It was such brutality that aroused the other prisoners and led to the demonstration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: At Stateville | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

Sanger's theory on Birth Control: as a trap Christian [I] could never sanction it. ... EDWARD P. LILLY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 23, 1931 | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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