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...conviction. Reporter Bill Brook helps him pin the crime on Hale. The evidence consists principally of a blood spot on Hale's coat, which might have come from a barber's cut. More threatening is a hot surge of Southern hatred. When Hale's wife (Gloria Dickson) gets a Northern detective and a crack Northern lawyer (Otto Kruger) to aid her husband, his doom is practically sealed...
...Philadelphia's Convention Hall, Ferde Grof e led the Philadelphia Orchestra through some of his own symphonic jazz, featured such radio soloists as Jane Pickens, Lucy Monroe, Lucille Manners, the Four Southernaires. Young Donald Dickson of the Metropolitan sang a song from The Vagabond King. Of the $7,000 raised by this concert, part went to Mayor Wilson's Milk Fund, part to the Orchestra's summer concerts at bosky Robin Hood Dell. Two days later, with dark Spanish Jose Iturbi on the podium, the Dell concerts officially began...
...young contingent successfully presented such operas as Faust, Il Trovatore and La Bohème. In Faust pretty Hilda Burke made a pathetic, simple Marguerite, used her small voice conscientiously but not tragically. Leon Rothier, a veteran Mephistopheles, had most assurance and most art. Good-looking Donald Dickson made his Metropolitan debut as Valentine. Even nervousness could not rob him of the strong, clear baritone and fine dramatic sense that first made scouts notice him when he was a Pennsylvania steelworker...
...Valentine on this occasion will be Donald Dickson, 25, who sings on the Sealtest program over NBC. Of the remaining U. S. recruits, NBC has a majority with Maxine Stellman, Thomas L. Thomas, Robert Weede, Helen Traubel...
...BURNING COURT-by John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). Skilfully written, highly improbable murder mingled with Black Magic in a Philadelphia suburb...