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...Special Crown Counsel Alfred Francis Adderley, Negro member of London's Middle Temple. Evidence collected at preliminary hearings last summer was presented again: the singed hairs on De Marigny's hands, arms, face and chest; the mark of his little finger on the smoke-smudged white screen that stood by Sir Harry's bed; the light that Neighbor Howard Lightbourne saw burning in the Count's bedroom that night; the fact that the shirt Freddy wore has never turned up and the wild things various police officers heard Freddy say in the days following the crime...
...active Private Detective Raymond Schindler, from New York, and the unwavering support of Nancy Oakes de Marigny, 19-year-old wife of the accused, made themselves felt. Doubt was cast on the cause of the singed hairs; the possibility was opened up that De Marigny might have touched the screen two days after the struggle in Sir Harry's bedroom, and the name of Grisou, an ash-grey Maltese cat, was introduced to explain away the light in Freddy's bedroom...
...According to Chinese claims the first use of a magnetic compass was by Chinese Emperor Hwang-ti in a battle in 2364 B.C. To guide his warriors through an enemy fog screen, he mounted on a cart a magnetized figure which steadily pointed south. But the real origin of the compass and its first use is uncertain...
Hitler's Children cost only $175,000 to make and was the biggest low-budget money-maker in screen history until Behind the Rising Sun (cost: $210,000) outshone it by covering production costs in New England alone. In any normal year only a very few expensive films will gross as much as $3,000,000. Gross estimates on each of RKO's two sleepers, for the first time in screen history, run anywhere from...
Lassie is the Mei Lan-fang of dog actors. She is a he. The name used to be Pal. Pal was born the runt of his litter. For a while, Trainer Rudd Weatherwax, who readies quite a few dogs and cats for the screen, had given Pal up as histrionically hopeless. But when M.G.M. saw the first rushes for Lassie, they immediately upped Pal's salary from $90 to $250 per week. Even Pal's stand-in got $100 a week...