Word: denouements
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...denouement was tragic. With an audience of a dozen or so peering from behind potted palms, he paced back and forth for some time, finally became worried and telephoned Miss Hepburn. "Where are you?" he asked. "Who are you?" said she. Result: no lunch...
This dippy denouement spoils the picture, but it does not spoil the excellence of many of its parts. Actors Grant and Fontaine make very attractive love to each other, turn in a high-grade performance. And, thanks to Hitchcock's tricks (letting the camera wander down cliffs, pause disturbingly on people's faces), the film has a texture that can almost be touched...
...mistress, a South American general, a shy French playwright, brilliantly acted by Austrian Oscar Karlweis, and a fat, macabre play director, who threatens just before the body is found: "I'll club him to death with his own truss." Crime Club members may get to thinking about the denouement and decide they were robbed. Less sophisticated mystery lovers probably get their money's worth...
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...