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...corpse melodrama, no bloody bundle of closet horrors, Angel Street, which played in London under the title Gaslight, has the good old English knack of brewing a thriller in a teacup, of making a Victorian parlor more menacing than an opium den, of giving to gaitered footsteps a carpet-slippery stealth. This spooky tale of London's gaslit era creates suspense, not by keeping the audience in ignorance, but by making it doubt what it knows. It builds up tension, not by hurrying its pace, but by slowing it down to a nerve-racking creep...
...rhythmic intervals, some Chicago newspaper or civic body "exposes" the flourishing evil of gambling. The Mayor is always "amazed," invariably "pledges action." The Police Commissioner is always "shocked," invariably calls his captains in on "the carpet...
...there amazed me and opened my eyes, to say the least. If some of the things I heard are verified I am sure that Commissioner of Police Allman will see that someone gets hell in the Police Department." James P. Allman ordered his captains called in on the carpet...
...Tommy Hart was just as independent as he is today. Once, while leading eleven other battleships in a pea-soup fog, he heard a destroyer's warning siren, somewhere off his bow. Promptly, without consulting his fleet commander, he ordered the line to stop. Hauled up on the carpet for breach of regulations, he exploded: "If I couldn't see, how the hell could the flagship at the end of the line?" He was officially rebuked, unofficially applauded...
...children made a game of Goebbels' informing Hitler afeout the sinking of the French ships at Oran. Child Hitler: "Bring me my carpet that I may bite it." Child Goebbels: "Which flavor, mein Führer?" Child Hitler: "Lemon, Joe. And I'll have a nibble at the raspberry...