Word: denouements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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STREAMLINED MURDER - Sue MocVeigh - Houghton Mifflin ($2). A poisoning on the Shooting Star's trial run -Manhattan to Chicago in 14 hours. The engineer perishes from sodium arsenite before he ever pulls the throttle. En route some passengers swallow the same stuff: one dies. Denouement: a tribute to Diesel electric engines...
...Denouement. Last week the President told the country: "Planes cost money ... a lot of it." The cost of the effort to change the U. S. over into a military economy was as yet inestimable. Billions no longer shocked the U. S., incalculable budgets had become like fairy tales, with a fairy tale's gossamer insubstantiality...
...Lucille Fletcher, 28, Vassar graduate, Phi Beta Kappa and Daisy Chain girl. So pronounced was audience reaction that Curley was put on the air again last week. Cinema studios and children's book publishers are now angling for Curley. As a radio character, unfortunately, Curley is washed up. Denouement of the play, done with a full catch-in-the-throat, is the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly...
...cigarette stubs, the over-plump cushions of her flowered couch-the real life of the woman which her husband is revealing for the first time to another person. As Olivier pauses, the cobwebbed telephone shrills like a police siren in the silence; scene and story reach their star-shell denouement...
...detracts from the force of the plot, especially when the youthful heroine barely escapes being hypnotized into suicide by Rebecca's devoted housekeeper. Within thirty seconds of film time, the audience finds itself in the middle of the next day having discovered the clue which plunges them into the denouement and gives promise of a happy ending. From now on the suspense slackens; you'll leave the theatre with haunting memories of Joan Fontaine and the spectacular photography, rather than limp from the excitement of a mystery story...