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Example of the trend is The Woman in White. Otto Schultz, blinded in the Pacific, falls in love with gentle Jennifer Burton, whom he has never seen. Will Jennifer's father, Dr. Burton, be able to do anything for Otto's sight? Will Otto still love Jennifer if he no longer has to lean on her? Meanwhile, Otto has managed to slip across several effective plugs for international cooperation...
...explains to the learned goof that Buzzy, star witness in a gangster murder, has been bumped off. The scholar, his double, must replace him at the Pelican, play upon the superstitious sensibilities of his killers, avenge his death by placing his fatal information in the hands of the D.A. (Otto Kruger). Just to help out in hard places, such as impersonating a great floorshow star when you know nothing in words of less than nine syllables, Buzzy's ghost demonstrates that he can enter and take charge of Edwin, body & soul. Complications develop, thanks to Miss Mayo...
...court of the czarina was justly notorious, but it does not measure up to "Forgotten Paradise," the silent film to which Ernst Lubitsch now adds dialogue and Tallulah Bankhead. Wielding its satire with too broad a hand, "A Royal Scandal" has lost the flavor of the original, and director Otto Preminger finds himself left with something too slapstick to be convincing...
...Germans of the Middle Army Group in Czechoslovakia and northern Austria ignored surrender orders. Under command of Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner (wanted by the Russians as a war criminal) and Colonel General Otto Woehler, the Wehrmacht stumbled blindly on, fought, then despairingly submitted or fled. By week's end the Russians had rounded up 1,230,000. Still at liberty were Schörner and Woehler...
...signed Princess Elisabeth Solms-Lich, with the notation, "Relative of English Royal Family" (her cousin, she said was the Grand Duke of Hesse, a great grandson of Queen Victoria). With her husband, Otto Vossler, who described himself as Professor at the American Leipzig University, and former Harvard student...