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...wine stewards the world over were invariably impressed with tall, greying, debonair, 58-year-old Norman Morton-Stewart. "His usual lunch bill was around ?18 ($50)," said an awed headwaiter in Birmingham last week. Even Norman's pretty young (29) wife, whom he invariably introduced as "Lady Barbara," was overawed by her husband, the manager of a local travel bureau, and also somewhat vague about the source of his wealth. "He used to tell me he had inherited a huge fortune in America from an uncle," she said. "His father was a very big man too, and his aunts...
...months ago, Barbara Morton-Stewart began to get a broader insight into her husband's nature and finances when he suddenly vanished from Birmingham, leaving her with a large staff of unpaid servants, a mountain of unpaid bills, and a tender note saying: "My darling Baba, I shall always love you. I am terribly sorry...
...host of new friends, and moved on to Sydney, Australia. There he registered (as Hall) in the leading hotel and began entertaining lavishly. "The pound-a-minute bloke," his new friends called him. To the more sympathetic of them, Norman occasionally showed a picture of his wife. "My darling Barbara," he would say, "she died ten months ago." Sydney's ladies gave their sympathies. One of them was only too happy to have her picture taken with Morton-Stewart at a fashionable nightclub. The picture in the papers brought the detectives on the run, but once again, Morton-Stewart...
...desert-detectives at last caught up with Norman Morton-Stewart. He was down to his last eleven shillings elghtpence ha'penny. Charged with vagrancy and clapped into a tin-roofed jail that crawled with cockroaches, he put in a collect call to England. "Darling!" cooed his faithful Lady Barbara, "don't worry about anything! When are you coming home...
Angel Face (RKO Radio) has as its leading character that familiar film figure-the beautiful but evil-hearted female. In this turgid thriller, she is a spoiled young woman (Jean Simmons) who, for no very clear reason, plots to murder her stepmother (Barbara O'Neil). She accomplishes her purpose by tampering with the reverse gear on her stepmother's automobile so that it backs over a cliff. Accidentally, the murderess' father (Herbert Marshall) also happens to be in the car at the time...