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...selling Merchant Nato and slack-jowled Commander Yamaguchi "died in jail" before the trial, as did two others who might have blabbed on the fanatical Committee of Revolution. Those tried last week were nearly all raw country youths, dupes of typical Japanese "blood brotherhood" propaganda. On paper the Great Plot had been one of the most appalling in Japanese history. But the only weapons of the plotters, aside from the bombing plane which never appeared, was a collection of Japanese swords and a handful of revolvers obviously useless against the firearms of police guarding the cabinet and dignitaries like Count...
Flavored with young love and London fog, furnished with an assortment of sweatered rogues talking Cockney out the sides of their mouths, the plot capers at the Bishop's gaitered heels as he discovers that the crime was planned by Hester (Maureen O'Sullivan) and Donald (Norman Foster) to "get back the stolen papers." Walter Connolly made a great success as the Bishop in the Broadway version of Frederic Jackson's play last winter, but it is hard to believe that anyone could be as good as Edmund Gwenn is in this adaptation. He is even convincing when his Episcopalian...
...This $2,000,000 Gothic edifice, eleventh in size among the world's cathedrals, was planned in 1853, dedicated in 1879, on a Fifth Avenue plot owned by the Church since...
Composer Gershwin took his subject from DuBose Heyward's play Porgy, persuaded Heyward to prepare a libretto which would cleave to the original plot, yet suit the structure of continuous music. Ira Gershwin, Brother George's collaborator in many a Broadway show, was called in to supply special lyrics. Director Mamoulian, who made his name with the original play, was willing to leave Holly wood. Mamoulian liked working with Negroes, had a steadfast admiration for the primitive tragedy of Charleston's Catfish Row. This time, though, his problem was harder. His actors had to be singers, trained to time themselves...
...drug ring, kidnappers, a motor "accident." Too soon comes a nicely individual ending. THE THREE COFFINS-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). Dr. Fell almost makes an error while pursuing an illusionist. There is a new method of murder in a locked room, a bit of dry humor in the plot. MURDER AT HIGH NOON-Paul McGuire-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a newshawk brings out "the perfect crime"; a final confession clears the last red herring...