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...rehearse a 19-member cast in the White Way Hotel, where his brother-in-law is the hotel manager. Miller's line of credit consists of exactly 67? cash (in the playwright's pocket) and $1,200 in unpaid hotel bills. Suddenly a dragon of a hotel inspector is breathing fire down everyone's neck. Fortuitously, a backer appears. At one of many crucial and hilarious moments, Miller, with no ink in his pen, frantically tries to pierce his wrist and draw blood so that the angel can sign the contract. From then on, Miller merely sweats...
...Murphy), a hotel bellboy in full uniform who wants to blackmail the lady with some morning-after photo negatives. She replies haughtily: "When I gave myself to you the contract didn't include cinematic rights." To cap the comers-in, in comes Dr. Ranee (Lucian Scott), an official inspector of mental clinics: "I represent our government, your immediate superiors in madness." What follows is a running maze of exits, reappearances, disappearances, mistaken identities, clothes swapping between men and women, and one of those crazy-happy recognition endings that Shakespeare used in which half the people onstage turn...
...thieves who in August 1963 made off with more than $7,000,000 from a Glasgow-to-London mail train. Closing that case was the capstone of a 34-year career in which Butler, according to admiring colleagues, combined the intellect of Sherlock Holmes with the persistence of Inspector Maigret...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Frederick Gerard Peake, 83, British officer who founded the Arab Legion in Transjordan; of pneumonia; in Kelso, Scotland Peake got his desert experience under the famed Lawrence of Arabia in World War I, was then given his own command as inspector general of gendarmerie in Transjordan in 1921. The 1,200-man legion he organized ranged 'over 34,000 sq. mi. of mountainous desert policing some 300,000 people and proved to be the most efficient military force in the entire Arab world...
Animated Sisters. In the shadow of the Great War, four Midlanders hurtle toward a collective destiny. School Inspector Rupert Birkin (Alan Bates) not only takes the author's part but is costumed and bearded to resemble him. His friend, Gerald Crich (Oliver Reed), is a mineowner who represents the century's death wish: mechanization. Their lovers are the animated Brangwen sisters, Ursula (Jennie Linden) and Gudrun (Glenda Jackson...