France's Dry Guillotine Explored by Richard Halliburton
Richard Halliburton recounts a personal immersion in Cayenne’s Devil’s Island system. He describes barrack life for 77 French and foreign convicts, bars, mosquitoes, and brutal conditions, then follows the daily routine from morning meals to labor. He documents prison marriages, guarded wealth stored in bodies, and a cemetery repeatedly emptied to make room for new burials, illustrating the system’s inhumanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Devil’s Island
Cayenne
Devortes
Marseilles
Chicago
France
Lyons
Paris
Plug Usly
Guiana
Bell Syndicate
WNN
Star Dust Movie News Boosts Alyerya Dawn as Leading Lady
Alyerya Dawn lands her first film opposite James Cagney in Grand National's Something to Sing About. Victor Schertzinger shepherds the project, with studio buzz around new Hollywood fashions from Sigrid Gurie and Louise Hovick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alyerya Daw
Hollywood
James Cagney
Victor Schertzinger
Janet Gaynor
Grace Moore
Evelyn
Holywood
Sigrid Gurie
United Artists
Gary Cooper
Marco Polo
Louise Hovick
Gypsy Rose Lee
Claudette Colbert
Paris
Barbara Stanwyck
Robert Taylor
Mariené Dietrich
Douglas Paubéaks, Jr
Opal Craven
Frank Black
Continentals
Chicago
Summer fashion tips and patterns from sewing circle
A bustling fashion note outlines mid summer wardrobe ideas, fabric choices, and easy care tips. It promotes a Handy Helps booklet, sewing patterns for fall designs, and lists pattern numbers with sizes and yardage, urging readers to order from The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept. in San Francisco.
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Miss Boyd
S. Desplaines St
Chicago
Milady
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
New
Montgomery Ave
San Francisco
Calif
Bell Syndicate
WNU
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Devil's Island
Richard Halliburton
Rinidad
British Guiana
Brazil
French Guiana
Star Dust Movie Radio
Virginia Valenka
Carole Lombard
Clark Gable
Clark
Wick Foran
Jimmy
Princeton Medical School
Universal
Buddy de Sylva
Washington
Joan Crawford
Luise Rainer
Grand National
Grant
Jean Marlow
Saratoga
Paul Robeson
King Solomon's Mines
Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
W. CG. Fields
Jack Benny
Western Ny
Chiffon
Salt Lake's
Tye
Gis
Temple Square
Ernest C.rossiter
Aer
Pietrl Mac
Salt Lake
the Newhouse Hotel
Hotel Newrouse
J. H. Waters
E. Sutton
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