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The story opens with the murder of his first victim, a seedy reporter, who is mixed up with a rival gang. A neat strangulation, this murder goes on the police records as heart failure. But two flaws turn up. One is a buxom, sentimental blonde, a sort of Mae West...
MURDER MAKES A MERRY WIDOW- Robert George Dean-Crime Club ($2). Two private detectives solve the murder of a Midwest newspaper columnist, who in his spare time dabbles in blackmail. Plot: ingenious. Action: swift. Unless a reader is tired of the tough, hard-drinking detectives, a good buy or borrow...
There were no volunteers. But Manhattan sportswriters suggested saloon-keeping, beer-drinking Tony Galento, first-rate heavyweight who is just half Gargantua's size (230 lb.), as a fair match for the simian. At his saloon in Orange, N. J., Tony Galento "deeply regretted" the suggestion. Meanwhile, in the...
The Two Bouquets (by Eleanor & Herbert Farjeon; produced by Marc Connelly in association with Bela Blau) is a mannerly, mock-genteel operetta of Victorian days which delighted Londoners for almost nine months, will not delight the U. S. so long. It does a fairly good job of trying to eat...
Dark-haired, pretty Maude Phelps Hutchins, a professional artist and wife of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, likes to draw psychological studies of nude female figures, which she calls "dialectic" drawings. Last fall, she made a drawing of her eleven-year-old daughter, Frances ("Franja"), a...