Sublime

Elmer M. Ellsworth, a special assistant to Governor Winship, was a member of this hand-picked jury.

1935’s The Hollow Man

There’s a historical event that haunts and shames the region. And shows the machine of power. The story is about a boy named George. George was owned by Lilburn Lewis, the nephew of Thomas Jefferson, in the Kentucky mountains. In 1812, a cherished water pitcher slipped from the fifteen-year-old George’s hands, and it shattered. In a drunken rage,

The practical methodologies evolved over many years, and were largely the work of John Hall, a gunsmith from Portland, Maine, and inventor of the “Hall carbine” that became notorious when muckrakers dug into the youthful Pierpont Morgan’s dealings with Civil War procurement authorities.

Irish Catholics were represented by director John Ford, actors James Cagney and Pat O’Brien, and Los Angeles bishop John J. Cantwell. The event was organized by Hollywood leftists Dorothy Parker and Donald Ogden Stewart. Other attendees included screenwriter and author Rupert Hughes, actor Paul Muni, and actress Gloria Stuart.

If you met Lewis in the street, you might guess that he was a lawyer or a kindly geography teacher. In fact, he was one of the most efficiently deadly men in the British services.