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Frau Göring knew just what she wanted. She ordered for early delivery four roomy (size 44) outfits in figured material, with puffed sleeves and padded shoulders. Said Saleswoman Jacqueline Spector: "Madame was in a hurry...
...year-old busboy stood on a bench to replace a light bulb that a prankish customer had removed. He lit a match. It touched one of the artificial palm trees that gave the Cocoanut Grove its atmosphere; a few flames shot up. A girl named Joyce Spector sauntered toward the checkroom because she was worried about her new fur coat...
Panic's Start. Before Joyce Spector reached the cloakroom, the Cocoanut Grove was a screaming shambles. The fire quickly ate away the palm tree, raced along silk draperies, was sucked upstairs through the stairway, leaped along ceiling and wall. The silk hangings, turned to balloons of flame, fell on table and floor...
...Cocoanut Grove patrons pushed and shoved, fell and were trampled. Joyce Spector was knocked under a table, crawled on hands & knees, somehow was pushed through an open doorway into the street. A chorus boy herded a dozen people downstairs into a refrigerator. A few men & women crawled out windows; a few escaped by knocking out a glass brick wall. But most of them, including Bridegroom John O'Neil, were trapped...
...corrected by a great love (Olivia de Havilland). In the first Goldwyn version, Ronald Colman played Raffles with ardor. David Niven plays the part with crookish cunning. But Niven's cunning is no match for Scotland Yard in the person of Dudley Digges. As canny, candy-munching In spector Mackenzie, Actor Digges, who can lift a scene with less effort than Raffles steals a necklace, pilfers most of the picture. What he leaves is filched by Dame May Whitty (the lady of The Lady Vanishes). Their threefold larcenies make entertainment as pleasant as pointless...