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Upshot of this grim situation in the play was that Mio, learning the identity of the murderer through his conversation with Trock, was himself murdered by Trock's trigger men before he could take the truth outside the shadows of the bridge. The picture, inspired more, it appears, by valid dramatic logic than by the Hays organization edict that Justice always triumphs on the screen, arranges a totally different conclusion. In it, after he has killed Shadow and Garth, Trock is shot dead by one of his own henchmen. Mio, apparently doomed to die in the trap they have...
...Yellow Springs, to pull the trigger of the opening gun of the Mann Centenary, went Columbia's old Philosopher John Dewey, President Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, onetime U. S. Commissioner of Education George Frederick Zook, 370 other schoolmen. The Centenary will spread to the U. S. public schools to which Horace Mann contributed more than any other individual and on which his fame securely rests...
...built, mounted and operated like a machine gun except that a trigger squeeze shoots a number of frames on a 16 mm. cinema film instead of a burst of bullets. After a sham battle, the pilots can see, precisely, where shots would have gone had they been firing a real gun. If there is any argument as to who "hit" first, the question is instantly settled by the time recorded to a split second on the film. List price of a machine-gun camera...
...which was not directly or indirectly to Stalin's personal advantage. He emerged from the court records so great that even his worst enemies quarreled over the honor of killing him; so well-guarded that would-be assassins sat in his presence not daring to pull the trigger; so idolized that Zinoviev's secretary, rather than kill Stalin, killed himself; so lucky that every plot against him failed; and finally so wise that a whole boxful of Bolsheviks intent on killing him did not try to justify themselves by uttering one critical or abusive word against the Perfect...
Wolfe's first cinema assignment is to discover who, by means of a gun concealed in a golf club, with a trigger released by impact with the ball, killed jolly old Professor Barstow and why. By the time he succeeds, the picture has unraveled the grim and interwoven biographies of an irascible golf professional, an Argentine olive oil dealer, a lady idol worshipper and a young man with an Oedipus complex. It has also indicated that its hero, less dashing than Philo Vance and less whimsical than Charlie Chan, but more mercenary than either, will be a highly acceptable...