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MURDER IN THE CALAIS COACH-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Basing the tale on America's great kidnapping, the author brings the archcriminal to his doom on a snowbound Jugoslavian express. Coincidentally the rotund, penetrating Poirot is abroad. Clues abound. Alibis are frequent and unassailable but nothing confounds the great Hercule who, after propounding alternative solutions to his jury of two, retires modestly...
Whether No Questions Asked is an argument, a melodrama or a penthouse comedy neither its author nor its producer seem to be sure. Its two qualifications as entertainment are a palatial but cozy set by P. Dodd Ackerman and three of Broadway's most pleasant and conversationally nimble actors...
...TRUE TO BE GOOD, VILLAGE WOOING, & ON THE ROCKS-George Bernard Shaw-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). The three latest plays of the Old Maestro. MOSTLY CANALLERS-Walter D. Edmonds-Little, Brown ($2.50). Short stories by an author whose claim to the Erie Canal is undisputed. FOOLS RUSH IN-Anne Green-Dutton ($2.50). Another frothily innocuous yarn by the sister of a morbidly good writer. THE MAKING OF AMERICANS-Gertrude Stein-Harcourt, Brace ($3). First U. S. edition (abridged) of Gertrude Stein's unreadable magnum opus...
Some of the thoughts which have crossed Professor Dodd's mind since he reached Berlin have been bold in the extreme. He expresses himself strongly to Mrs. Dodd and the children. By last week he had called twice on the German Foreign Office, to demand equal treatment for Germany's U. S. creditors who are receiving far less than her Dutch and Swiss creditors. This outrage, Professor Dodd would like to have hotly told Chancellor Hitler, must be corrected...
When President Roosevelt found that Ambassador Dodd's first and second calls had produced not even a reply he took what Germans last week regarded as the "unprecedented" step of summoning to the White House owlish German Ambassador Dr. Hans Luther. On his departure bald Dr. Luther pinked hotly when he discovered that correspondents knew what the President had called him on the carpet about...