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Another surprise of The Great Lie is Mary Astor, in another comeback. This time, in a tight shingle bob, she is back with a bang as Sandra Kovac, a temperamental concert pianist* with a touch of siren. The overtones of her villainous role begin to sound, sometimes a little nasally, from the time she snatches Maggie's (Bette Davis) rollicking, playboy sweetheart, Pete (George Brent), and marries him in an alcoholic spree. When it is discovered that they have to do it again because Sandra got her divorce decree dates mixed, Maggie snatches Pete back, this time salting...
...Music-minded quibblers may note that Miss Astor does not possess the heavy-duty frame customarily required of successful female classical pianists...
...Halifax, the Canadian naval patrol boat Otter, 2,000 tons, burned and sank with loss of 19 lives. Until last year, the Otter was Vincent Astor's famed Nourmahal, on which Seadog Astor often took Franklin Roosevelt fishing...
...Lady Astor watched the explosions; James Brand watched his dockyards pasted. Then, without warning, a high explosive went off near by. Every window in the Astor house blew out; Lady Astor's clothes were covered with powdered glass. Incendiaries landed on the roof. She and her guests ran up and doused them with sand. The going got thick; for a time they went into the cellar. Later they came out to douse more incendiaries. Early in the morning, when the all-clear sounded, Nancy Astor dragged herself upstairs and fell into bed in her windowless room...
Just after 9 the next morning, Lady Astor, once so-called leader of the so-called "Cliveden Set," called up United Press and asked if she might send the U. S. a message. Her experience on the Hoe had given her an idea that the dilatory Drake was wrong. U. P. said she could say whatever she wished...