Word: cosmo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Topper Returns (United Artists) is the straightforward title to a roundabout whodunit. As on two previous occasions, Cosmo Topper, Thorne Smith's shy, baffled little gentleman who consorts with ghosts, is played by wispy Roland Young. This time his customary bewilderment is complicated by a murder in a creaky old manse with sliding panels and secret passageways...
...Suave Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop Parker's present successor, is a bachelor. But he has an interest in matters matrimonial-as he showed during Edward VIII's abdication crisis in December 1936. Last week His Grace's Commission on Kindred and Affinity as Impediments to Marriage handed him a report. It recommended that the Church henceforth give its blessing to a man marrying his: father's brother's wife, wife's father's sister, wife's mother's sister, wife's sister, brother's wife, mother's brother...