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...Twist is not what recommends "Chicago Deadline." Neither is Alan Ladd, nor, for that matter, Donna Reed, both of whom are starred in the film. What the picture does offer is a good plot with plenty of suspense, and, in due course, lots of action...
...Paris, Mary Garden, 72, said that she would make a lecture tour in the U.S. this fall, her first trip back in 18 years. Her subjects: music, the opera, and singers. Said the onetime prima donna, whose hip-swinging versions of Thais and Salome still linger in the memories of old-time operagoers: "I will speak as I feel...
...lurid and complex as the plot of a Faulkner novel, and though they are reported as unembellished fact, considerably less convincing. Scattered among accounts of excursions to local bars and bordellos, political picnics, Shriners conventions and early jazz sessions, are the tragedies of boardinghouse friends such as Donna Guillermina, a wandering Spanish aristocrat who died of eating too much burgoo at a political rally. Minor Paul characters are shot by suspicion-crazed alcoholic spinsters, held under the water in bordello bathtubs, driven half-mad by ghostly apparitions, slashed from cheekbone to chin by jealous wives...
After three months of woman-to-woman friendship, Betty recalled in London's Sunday Pictorial, "Donna asked me if I would like to share the digs. I agreed. I watched her unpack. Donna had exquisite transparent cami-knickers, little lace panties, corsets, lots of nylons. We talked for a time. Then Donna gave me my first shock. She asked: 'Would you mind if I smoked a pipe...
...Funnyman Milton Berle was getting no laughs out of Met Soprano Dorothy Kirsten. Cried the prima donna: "He hired a girl in a hideous blonde wig and passed her off as me. Then he played a screeching record . . . and had the girl mouth along with the words. The result was just awful . . . The image was most unattractive . . ." Dorothy even made threats to sue for "plenty . . . Imagine putting on that horrible-sounding mess and telling everybody I was doing it . . ." Said Milton, through his lawyers: "She is unfamiliar with the actual facts . . ." Then he began trying, still unsuccessfully at week...