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Keeper of the Keys (adapted by Valentine Davies; Sigourney Thayer producer). This vehicle for the late Earl Derr Biggers' famed Detective Charlie Chan largely goes to prove that the wily inspector and his ponderous Chinese proverbs are better off on the screen or between book covers than on the stage. An ex-husband of a leering opera singer assembles her and three of his marital successors in his Lake Tahoe hunting lodge. Actor William Harrigan, a younger, sleeker, slightly more occidental Chan than cinema's Warner Oland, gets a head start when he is added to the party...
...whither the Einsteins were bound. When the Westernland entered New York Harbor it was met by a tugboat chartered by two of the Institute's trustees, Lawyer Herbert Maass and Edgar S. Bamberger, retired vice president of the famed Newark department store. With them they had a customs inspector, to get the Einsteins quietly off the ship. They had forgotten to bring an immigration officer. While they waited, news cameramen managed to snap the Einsteins-the Herr Doktor, bewildered, trying to shield himself by waving his violin case, his wife resolutely crying: "No! No! No! No interviews!" At length...
...FIRST DEGREE-Roger Scarlett -Crime Club ($2). Inspector Kane becomes one of a weird Boston family to avert a murder. Unsuccessful, he at least discloses their queer actions and motives...
Later that night the same ship was running up the Hudson River off Weehawken, N. J. Customs Inspector Michael Guilfoyle was not suspicious of her but since he had just been ordered to watch every ship closely, he hailed her. "We're bound for Albany," the skipper replied. "We can't stop in this tide." The inspector noted the name on her bow, Texas Ranger. He recognized her cut and markings as familiar, let her go through...
James Rennie (Alien Corn) comes on the stage, a picture of self-confidence, as Inspector Ellery, recognizable as Author King's capable, dinner-coated stock character Lieut. Valcour. Inspector Ellery & staff turn the theatre upside down, invade the musicians' room, wardrobe room, property room, and even, amid terrified squeals, the backstage quarters of the naked ladies of the ensemble. They question everyone: unholy Siebenkase (Bela Lugosi of Dracula); Madame Tanqueray, the wren-like wardrobe mistress; bug-eyed Billy Slade, impersonated by Ben Lackland. As usual, Mr. Lackland is playing the part of a rich young man with...