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...Communist coup in Hungary got such space in the Examiner as Beulah and Bud. The Los Angeles press invaded suburban Santa Ana in force, with 30-odd reporters, photographers and such trained seals as Mystery Writer Craig Rice (later fired), Screenwriter Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, and Adela Rogers St. Johns...
WHEN LAST I DIED-Gladys Mitchell -Knopf ($2). This marks the welcome reappearance of Mrs. Adela Bradley, elderly, erudite and sardonic British dabbler in deduction. From an old diary she gets her first clue to a trio of brutal slayings, holds an eerie investigation of a houseful of poltergeists, and finally scotches a cunning criminal. Slow-motion at times, but a treat for connoisseurs...
Then, to back up the designers, leading U.S. women were asked to make reassuring statements. Said Adela Rogers St. Johns: "The overdressed woman will be as unpatriotically conspicuous as though she wore a Japanese kimono." Cracked Irvin S. Cobb's daughter Elisabeth: "I'll cheerfully lose my skirt to keep our liberty...
...Hearst friend and spiritual shepherd of Hollywood's producers. Mr. Mayer was warned that the release of Kane would mean a good, old-fashioned Hearstian attack on Hollywood-lots of stories on the intimate facts of the intimate lives of the movie colony. Hearst's gossip-dishing Adela Rogers St. Johns was placed on the firing line...
...Novelist Adela Rogers St. Johns, 45, hurrying from Manhattan to Manhasset, Long Island at 3 a. m., found herself half way home in a parked cab, the driver having stepped out for a moment. Next to her cab was another, likewise chauffeurless. Impulsively Miss St. Johns switched cabs, taking the cabby's seat. From the lunchwagon emerged two cabbies, one minus fare, the other minus cab. Miss St. Johns presently faced charges of driving a cab without an operator's license, passing a red light, driving while intoxicated. Novelist St. Johns' latest book, to be published...