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...handsome, grey-haired American who is staying at the Savoy Hotel, London, with his smart wife and charming daughter???well, his foundations may easily be knee-deep in the mire of the underworld. What is more, he may be only vaguely aware that this really matters. . . . King Crime is enthroned, and his influence extends over the whole vast country, but checking very abruptly at the Canadian border and not flowing over even into Mexico. ... A criminal army of 1,000,000 persons is operating in the United States and 25,000 gangsters alone have died by gunfire since Prohibition came...
...stage, Helen Hayes's greatest success was Coquette. The run of that play was terminated by a celebrated act of God?the birth of Helen Hayes's daughter???over which there was an Actors Equity suit. Her husband. Playwright Charles MacArthur (see The Unholy Garden) worked up the script of Madelon Claudet (from the stage play The Lulla-by). A jolly, practical jokester, he once wrote a speech abusing drama critics, gave it to his wife to read over the radio when it was too late for her to change. Helen Hayes is two years younger than the 20th Century...
...convince his audiences that he enjoys what he is doing and because of his superb skill at singing the "intimate" type of revue ballad. The story is about a Frenchman who makes his mark in the chewing-gum business so as to win a U. S. millionaire's daughter???Claudette Colbert. With the plot keyed a little lower and a chorus thrown in The Big Pond could easily have been turned into a musical comedy. As it stands it is good program entertainment, but not adequate for Chevalier's talents. Best song: "You Brought a New Kind of Love...
...doubt as to what is happening in my own home, I need only turn to the gossip in The Daily Wonder to find all the information I need. It may be the latest remark or action of my daughter??? though probably unknown to myself?or the fact that we have changed the decoration of our London house some ten or twelve times since we first occupied it three years...
...VICAR'S DAUGHTER???E. H. Young ?Harcourt Brace...