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Pursuit. It was not easy. Sensing danger, Nazi spymasters in Hamburg had named all their agents in the Americas with nicknames. Intercepted messages referred to "Bach," to "Pedro," to "Apfel." But patiently, month after month, the cryptic messages were studied and compared, the machinations of the spies uncovered. It was found that "Bach" was Ludwig von Bohlen, Air Attache to the Santiago German Embassy. A woman, one Isabel Pederit, was found to be the spy-ring expert, charged with developing letters written in secret inks. These came to her from all over the Americas, and the information they contained...
Attacks on British ships in the 23-month-old war were brought to 60 and the 78th British seaman was killed. The British-owned port at Gandia, with Union Jacks painted on the rooftops, was bombed and machine-gunned in what British Manager Edwin Apfel called a "deliberate brazen attack on British property." At Denia, a raisin exporting centre, the French merchantman Brisbane was bombed, five seamen were killed, a British observer for the Non-intervention Committee killed and the captain injured. Farther down the coast at Alicante the British freighter St. Winifred and the 5,387-ton ship English...
Like many other stage plays converted to the screen, this production has a vigorous, staccato dialogue to atone for its lack of pictorial beauty. The smaller parts are on the whole excellently played. We like particularly Oscar Apfel as Editor Hinchcliffe. He regarded the words "scandal", "sex", and "sensational" with squeamishness; preferred saying "human interest...
Cercle Francais--Place Apfel Struffle-- All right if you like the high brow side of life. Decadent Boston and a bit of Third Class travel combine to give that je ne sais quoi of je ne sais quoi...
...Aint it the truth, Mr. Finkleburg? Yes. And so why not the ankles in a feature play (for public consumption with beauty comic, huh? So a scenario with ankles for the public, Miss Apfel, you will get and perhaps maybe some slap stick to assist the ankles with a hotel for impression, what? No! Don't esk? If gentlemen patrons won't look at faces on Broadway or perhaps cross town why should they in moving picture art, so ankles it is with high skirts of Paris, Miss Apfel. Dictation...