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...Penicillin is also effective against syphilis (TIME, Oct. 25, 1943). Standard treatment with arsenic compounds used to take months or years. Penicillin treatment is a matter of weeks...
Murder, He Says (Paramount) roughly-very roughly indeed-combines the most easily laughable aspects of Tobacco Road, Arsenic & Old Lace, and the ghoul-infested mansions of .Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons. It tells of one difficult evening in the life of a Trotter Poll question-asker (Fred MacMurray) who is investigating refrigeration among rubes and the mysterious disappearance of a fellow-Trotter. Startled when a luminous dog tears through the night woods, he runs afoul of the local Jukes family, whose name is Fleagle. While he twitches around among cattle skulls in the uninviting Fleagle living room, and snags...
Russel Crouse, half of the witty, successful playwriting-producing team of Lindsay & Crouse (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace), in Baltimore trying out a new show (The Hasty Heart), exploited his versatility by subbing for a stormbound bagpipe player, imitated the bagpipe's wheeze until the fellow showed...
Another event in London's theatrical week was the second birthday of Arsenic and Old Lace, which Producer Firth Shephard celebrated by repeating his first-night trick: at the final curtain, a slew of London's topnotch comedians (Jack Buchanan, Will Hay, et al.) file onstage to impersonate the "corpses" who had been elderberried in the cellar...
Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouce have come up with a new and an unusual variety of theatrical entertainment in "The Hasty Heart." The play lacks the appealing sentimentality of "Life With Father"; it does not have the grotesque attraction of "Arsenic and Old Lace"; but "The Hasty Heart" strikes at deeper human election than have any of the famous partners' former productions...