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...equal glow for the great and the trivial in books ("As I grow older I find Shakespeare more thrilling, more enchanting; yet I relish a good detective story"), Phelps added the seductions of wit† and a stock of anecdotes about literary greats he had known (Galsworthy, Barrie, Maeterlinck, Conrad, Shaw, et al.). To critical literary contemporaries, Phelps was a sinner who had stopped to look back at the Victorian Age and turned to a pillar of saccharine. Said unruffled Billy Phelps: "The most important emotion to preserve in maturity [is] the enjoyment of enjoyment." His warm enthusiasms and wide...
...bride in prewar Germany, but not on anything so innocent as a honeymoon. In quest of a secret which Great Britain needs to know they get involved in disguises, a Liszt-accompanied murder, battles with the Gestapo. They also run afoul of such suspicious figures as Basil Rathbone and Conrad Veidt. Strangely enough, it all adds up to a better-than-average summertime melodrama...
...Conrad Veidt Above Suspicion is also a milestone: his last picture for anybody. He died last spring (TIME, April 12), age 50, of a heart attack, on a Hollywood golf course. Often regarded as Eric von Stroheim's most formidable rival as a fondler of monocles, German-born Veidt first came to fame in Robert Wiene's bizarre fantasy, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Other weirdies, like The Hands of Mr. Orlac, followed. Women fainted, men screamed, children chortled when they were shown. By 1926, when Veidt went to Hollywood, audiences had got hold of themselves pretty well...
...clear study of the continent as an invasion objective has come from a remarkable but little-known U.S. Army figure: 65-year-old Colonel Conrad H. Lanza, retired. At his home in Manchester, N.H., Colonel Lanza reads the newspapers, tunes in foreign broadcasts with a short-wave receiver, studies maps, applies the background knowledge acquired during 44 years as an army officer. Results: articles which at times have made General Staff officers gasp and wonder where Colonel Lanza was getting his "secret" information...
...Conrad Lanza was born (in New York) of a titled Italian family, according to Army friends. He looked the part in his early army years. Tall, slender, boasting both a mustache and a Vandyke beard, he had been commissioned a lieutenant when he was 20, was a captain at 25. At that time, in 1903, most captains were nearer 40. Lanza played the piano "beautifully," spoke five languages (including French, German, Italian), made a brilliant record as a staff officer, was decorated for his work as an artillery staffer in France during World...