Word: warden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joliet, Ill., Rev. John Keating of Sacred Heart Catholic Church found the rectory safe locked. No one knew the combination. Rev. Keating appealed to Warden Frank Whipp of Illinois State Penitentiary for an expert safecracker. Warden Whipp demurred...
...leads the move by which the convicts capture the guards, barricade themselves inside the deathhouse. Bargaining for their liberty they execute the guards one by one. Meanwhile, radio policemen outside are chasing a set of gangsters who are in a position to prove that Howard Phillips is innocent. The warden uses a convenient telephone to tell Preston Foster that his friend Phillips has been proved innocent, will be reprieved if they all surrender. Foster agrees for the sake of the picture's plot, walks out into the guards' hail of bullets. Most of the harsh ironies of the play, such...
...grifter with formidable dimples. She is the long-forgotten wife of a provincial hotelkeeper (Richard Bennett) and the mother of his two daughters. A rolling stone, she comes back to the starting line for moss, incognito except to her husband. But for $20 she swindled out of the warden as she was leaving her latest penitentiary she is penniless, but she caracoles into town as the Countess of Auburn. She finds one daughter's marriage being blocked by the town banker. She asks him to draw up a codicil to her will, leaving the girl an imaginary fortune. That...
...blood in his veins," a reporter for the Associated Press, an eloquent thunderstorm. The spider runs amok, hangs the two convicts from the rafters, drains them of blood, but not before one of them has annoyed the heroine by locking her in the spider's closet. The prison warden (Frank Shannon) points a suspicious finger at first one person, then another. The Japanese butler makes bright remarks in a Gallic accent. The swamp lad's father is buried in offstage quicksands, thereby purifying the Hollins blood...
Cried Councillor Jules Guichet: "But certainly the snail is game. One hunts it, does one not? The game warden is trying to escape his responsibility...