Slay Belles
Oct 12, 2019
1 minute
By ANNE FORD
The 1926 play that preceded the Broadway musical (and the films of the same name) was written by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins, who had a flair for covering sensational homicides — including the Leopold and Loeb, she once told an interviewer: “I got so I prayed for murders. Not that you ever have to pray long for murders in Chicago.”
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