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After the Thin Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) avoids the pitfall of most sequels, that of seeming a weak copy of the original, by being so much like its original that only experts in Dashiell Hammett plots will be able to tell the difference. In this picture, Asta. Detective Nick Charles's wire-haired terrier, has a mate, and the scene of operations is San Francisco instead of New York. In other respects, Mr. & Mrs. Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) maintain unchanged the amiably frantic domesticity which, in The Thin Man, set the style for detective cinema...
...David Graham (James Stewart), in love with Mrs. Charles's cousin; a Chinese restaurateur (William Law) who looks like an owl, and a dancing girl (Dorothy McNulty), one of whose relatives is one of the total of three corpses discovered in the course of the entertainment. Good shot: Asta, inspecting his mate's litter of puppies, amazed to find a black one that looks like the Scotty next door...
...West Virginia after a postal courtship. Accused of the killing was small, pudgy, pig-eyed Harry F. Powers of Quiet Dell. In his house was found a trunk full of correspondence from women all over the U. S. Buried near his garage was found another of his correspondents, Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher of Park Ridge, Ill., together with the bodies of her three children. Mr. Powers' system : mail-order them, marry them, mulct them, murder them (TIME, Sept...
...After we docked at Leningrad," confessed a penitent stoker from the freighter Asta, "there was a big meeting. All us German sailors in town came. A Russian got up and explained a lot of things. So we all voted to strike...
...many States followed clues to other crimes, other murders, all linked to Clarks burg's "Bluebeard" and the matrimonial societies through which he operated. From his papers it was apparent he had conducted at least 115 mail-order "court ships" with lonely, foolish women. Relatives of Widow Asta Buick Eicher, 50, in Park Ridge, Ill., became suspicious when Harry F. Powers, with whom she and her three children had left home after a mail-order courtship, reappeared to claim her house. Letters from Powers postmarked Clarksburg, W. Va., were found in the house. Clarksburg police went to Powers...