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Producer Dowling has bolstered the play's shadowy situations with the best actors he could hire on either side of the Atlantic. Forty-four-year-old Sir Cedric Hardwicke (youngest actor ever knighted) plays the witty Canon Skerritt, who glories in the forms of Catholicism, finds comfort in its intellectual discipline as he sips his old Madeira, calls his parishioners boobs, but achieves a state of grace through the faith of his kitchen slavey...
Before 4 a. m. police roused Minneapolis Star Gossip Columnist Cedric Adams, hustled him to headquarters, demanded to know where he picked up the amazing tip he had printed ten days earlier: "I met a very close friend of mine in the Loop last night. He's given me scores of items in the past; some of them have been little scoops, too. And he's never been wrong. Here's one he dropped last night-you can take it for what it's worth. A prominent labor leader in Minneapolis will be 'taken...
...came all too true, Columnist Adams again told police in his scratchy, nasal voice that a reporter cannot break a confidence. Yet this was serious business. That morning, while police unavailingly checked reports that the killing was the result of an A. F. of L.C. I. O. feud, Cedric Adams feverishly telephoned the home of his informant. When he got no answer, Prophet Adams, recalling the unsolved Minneapolis murders of weekly Editors Walter Liggett (1935) and Howard Guilford (1934), who had campaigned to expose the Minneapolis underworld, was a badly worried...
...Cedric Adams' personal concern was relieved when his good friend & tipster, Dr. Russel R. Noice, walked into the Star office, made known he was ready to tell police he had overheard a murder plotted in the cheap League of Nations beer parlor, but that the intended victim was not Corcoran but another labor leader. Soon Alderman A. G. Bastis revealed that not only Patrick Corcoran but four other labor leaders had been marked for death, that Corcoran himself knew he was in danger, that Rumorist Adams had merely printed what had been widely whispered in Twin City labor circles...
...Races (Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx); The Road Back (John King, Richard Cromwell); King Solomon's Mines (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, Roland Young, Paul Robeson); Wee Willie Winkle (Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen); Knight Without Armor (Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat) ; They Won't Forget (Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris) ; Topper (Constance Bennett, Gary Grant, Roland Young...