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...NAMELESS CRIME-Walter S. Masterman-Button ($2). Scotland Yard spots, but does not punish, the murderer...
SARDINIAN SIDESHOW-Amelie Posse-Brazdova-Button...
...Gray's sloop Orca, President Hoover's luck changed. His first day's catch: three sails (one 7 ft., 8 in.) and a dolphin. The second day he got two more "sails," one of which was barely an inch too short to win him the "diamond button" awarded by the Sailfish Club of Florida for eight-footers...
Birthdays. Taft School Headmaster Horace Button Taft, 71; Banker Rudolph Spreckles, 61; Alfred Emanuel Smith, 59; all race horses...
Through three rather long acts interest is maintained by shifting the object of attention subtly and effectively. First the persecutor's alibi depends upon a green chartreuse bottle, then an overcoat button, and finally upon establishing the presence of the same blood on a pair of gloves and a knife. Suspense rises to a pitch at the end of the first scene in act three; the last two scenes are lamentably weak perhaps because of their brevity. The author has injected several squibs in the Shavian manner, such as "today women are either supermen or twittering neurasthenics," which neither pass...