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...Yellow Jacket" is undoubtedly quite different from the usual run of plays to be seen today. Whether this is an advantage or a disadvantage is a matter of opinion. The difference lies in the fact that the play is intentionally unrealistic in the extreme. The scene of the action is the stage of a Chinese theatre. The Property Man (Arthur Shaw) sits off to one side drinking tea and smoking a cigarette. Every so often he gets up with a bored look, to tend to his duties. He throws down a red cushion to signify a gory head, tosses pieces...
...CADAVER of GIDEON WYCK- Edited by Alexander Laing-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Even readers who pay little attention to publishers' blurbs may find their hackles rising in pleasant anticipation when they spy on The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck's jacket: WARNING People unable to sustain violent shock are advised that they read this book on their own responsibility. AND THE PUBLISHERS REALLY MEAN THIS. The book read, their hackles relapse in disappointment. Though Editor Laing's anonymous tale starts off promisingly enough on horrifying tiptoe, it soon bumps down to the flat policeman tread of any cheerful murder...
...with some impatience. Frankfurter started for the elevator. "You can't go up like that," the others objected. The lumberjacks, they warned him, were in a hostile mood, suspicious of the government's efforts at mediation. Frankfurter's appearance in any such capitalist regalia as a dinner jacket would ruin all prospect of settlement. "Nonsense," Frankfurter replied and went to meet the strikers. While his associates looked on apprehensively, he held the conference, gradually succeeded in breaking down the antagonism of the strikers. When the meeting broke up substantial progress had been made...
...some of the strikers in the elevator. The leader, a burly, red-headed Irishman, surveyed the diminutive mediator, grunted, "You don't look so nice as you did last night." The strikers, it turned out, had felt honored that the government's agent should put on a dinner jacket to deal with them...
...tedious. . . . The funniest case I ever worked on was the Arbuckle affair in San Francisco. In trying to convict him everybody framed everybody else." Practically every character in his books, says Hammett, he has known in person. As readers of The Thin Man can see by looking at its jacket, Dashiell Hammett is himself tall, thin, handsome, mildly theatrical. Lover of parlor games, including drinking, expert ping-pong player, indefatigable host, he likes to keep long and late hours. No busman on a holiday, he reads few detective stories, much philosophy. An insomniac, it often takes a whole volume...