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...Hangover Square" is one of those motion pictures about which one feels particularly cheated, for its has a cast that is convincing and several highly professional moments. Cregar gives an intense portrayal as Bone; Linda Darnell, his high-kicking cafe dancer, repeats her role of the designing seductress in "Summer Storm" with surprising skill. There are some very effective touches in the photography: a long view of a Guy Fawkes Day bonfire, and what is unquestionably the film's most absorbing minute, a mouth-watering close-up of the Darnell cheescake...
Correspondent Lael Tucker got up in a 400-franc Lancaster Hotel room, washed in cold water, breakfasted on three slices of bread and butter supplemented with honey brought from the south of France and cafe national (burnt barley)- cost of breakfast, 100 francs. Her car broke down half way to an appointment, so the final three-quarter -mile trip in a Velo taxi cost 300 francs. She took a member of the Consultative Assembly to a moderate-priced restaurant for lunch - 700 francs. Bought a plain white handkerchief to blow her nose in - 90 francs. Bought a weekly supply...
Answered a Manhattan cafe hostess: "I'd take my most gorgeous negligee from the closet, don it, go to the window and wait for the firemen. . . . I'd risk a few minutes of my life to be seen as I always want to be seen in public, glamorous...
...Hopkins met Mrs. Louise Gill Macy, Manhattan divorcee and onetime Paris fashion expert for Harper's Bazaar. They were married in the White House and lived there for a year before moving to their home in Georgetown. Mrs. Macy was well known in Manhattan cafe society, and some of Harry's old friends of WPA days began mumbling that Harry was deserting them in favor of glitter and wealth. But long before he met his present wife, Hopkins had had many friends among the rich?the Whitneys, the Harrimans, the Forrestals, the Stettiniuses, the John Hertzes?moving as effortlessly...
They escaped, but from the three in custody, Allied authorities collected names, addresses, information. Police dropped in on a Rome cafe just as the mob was driving away with an Italian civilian who had been acting as their fence. They had marked him down as a stool pigeon and were taking him for a ride. Police captured them...