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...prologue, a judge denies the appeal of a man convicted of two atrocious murders, whose reenactment then follows. Act I discloses the lonely Essex household of Mrs. Bramson (May Whitty), a querulous, malingering old lady who keeps in genteel British bondage her penniless and emotionally suffocated niece Olivia (Angela Baddeley). When the maid complains of pregnancy and her seducer is called on the carpet, he turns out to be Dan (Author Williams), cocky, ingratiating, cigaret-mouthing bellboy from a nearby hotel in which a woman has been sensationally done to death. Dan cajoles old Mrs. Bramson so skilfully that...
...happy chance, though Anthony never finds out, is his maternal grandfather. He marries the cook's daughter (Olivia de Havilland), leaves her to collect a debt in Cuba, goes to Africa to make a fortune in the slave trade, returns to Leghorn to find his Angela gone, his grandfather dead and the family housekeeper misbehaving with a grandee who Anthony does not know was his mother's husband. Having escaped the efforts of this malevolent pair to force his coach off the road into an Alpine pass, Anthony finds Angela getting along nicely in Paris as mistress...
TRIBUTE FOR HARRIETTE-Angela Thirkell-Random House...
...years Lady Alice and her sister, Lady Angela Scott, have had friendly arguments as to who is the better driver. Lady Angela is a greater lover of speed than her sister and in her Morris Isis she covers thousands of miles every year...
...Cleveland, Angela Demoa, 18, bought a wedding ring, a trousseau, filled her car with gasoline, hired two armed thugs. They forced her bashful fiancé, Frank Genovese, from a theatre at pistol point with the whispered admonition: "We've got the heat on you," drove him 113 miles to Ripley, N. Y., where Angela Demoa married...