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...could be expected. The Mousetrap is a moderately awful play, not really in the same class with Christie's Witness for the Prosecution. Marooning its characters in an ancient manor house in a snowstorm, it festoons them with such stupendous lines as "By the time the snow has melted, a lot of things may have happened" and "There are six of you listening to me now -one of you is the killer...
...French and Indian War, or the life of Florence Chadwick-but all that meets the eye is a very playable, if not brilliant, variation of the formula of Bus Stop and a thousand other dramas: throw an assortment of people together in a public place, add a snowstorm to keep them there and watch what happens. What does in this case is a lot of excellent talk, some acute revelation of character (but no character development), and a murder. Some of the characters and some of the talk seem to be included to no real purpose, and the central figure...
This is a very American novel written by a Frenchman about Belgium. The U.S. note is insistently struck when Robert Drouin, a Paris TV producer, drives through an all-night snowstorm across a wide Flanders plain as featureless and flat as any Midwestern prairie. He asks directions at a roadside inn where huge transcontinental trucks cluster and the room rocks with the blare of a jukebox and the colored lights and clatter of pinball machines. Even the ancient, canal-veined city of Bruges, whose chimes and carillons sound like "pianos in the sky," has a night face of glaring neon...
Next on the list was Frankie Sinatra's Hollywood-style Gala at the cavernous National Armory. Happily for the Democratic Party coffers, the tickets had been sold long before the snowstorm-and just as Sinatra had predicted, the show made a mint: nearly $1,400,000 (single seats, $100; boxes, $10,000). Unhappily for the showfolk, however, only two-thirds of the ticket-holders (some 6,000 people) turned up, and what with the traffic delays, the extravaganza got under way nearly two hours late. The biggest stars, of course, were the Kennedys themselves, and they had a fine...
...Manhattan's Grand Central Station, managed to close the New York Central Railroad. A couple of days later, the New Haven Railroad was forced to shut down. At that point, more than 100,000 commuters had been forced to find new ways of getting to work-and the snowstorm made things tougher to the point of impossibility...