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Last week Chief of German Police Heinrich Himmler was proud as a pouter pigeon. Having proved strangely inept as a cop, he redeemed himself as a superb detective-story author. Serially, from day to day, he released his mystery thriller, The Bürgerbräu Plot...
...Jones of the Globe: "Harvard by one or two touchdowns. Harlow has a superior all-round ball-club and more dangerous backs. It may be a thriller...
...single game. The most logical explanation for the meager 32,000 at the Bowl last Saturday is simply the one-sidedness of the predictions of the game. It is ironical that after this playing down in the papers the game turned out to be a genuine Big Three thriller. The football public from now on may believe the tradition that a Big Three game is always exciting enough for anybody's $3.85. At least, the Harvard-Yale fans seem to believe...
...Creel Committee was well absorbed by most U. S. citizens-the younger generation, it has been said, never quite recovered. Not easily forgotten were the Creel Committee's Halt the Hun posters, with their spidery villains; its movies, with riotous queues fighting to see that gory thriller, The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin; its 75,000 spellbinding Four-Minute Men; its Red, White and Blue pamphlets, in which famed history professors rewrote German history; its National School Service (circulation: 20,000,000 homes); its syndicated news (20,000 columns a week), boiler-plate ads, feature stories by such writers...
Outside of typical Grade B weakness, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" rates a passing grade as a mystery thriller. The horror of the bleak, English moors--which is almost becoming the screen character of His Majesty's isle--is well supported by the business-like Sherlock of Basil Rathbone and a very satisfying "elementary, my dear Watson" by Nigel Bruce...