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...wealthiest of the necessarily moneyed diplomatic corps, he began as a humble secretary, advanced by ability as much as influence. During his 23-year diplomatic ascendancy he served in Athens, Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, St. Petersburg, London, Berlin. Golf he plays, but prefers to collect art, read, dine elegantly. Since his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1926 he has lived in a big stone house in Washington, which he has adorned with old French stone carvings under the eaves, a formal French garden. Close friends are Art Lovers Laughlin and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon...
...always athletic event to see and there is a plebe team in every sport. He is not allowed to go to the Saturday evening hops, but there are always moving pictures on these nights. And over the week end, he can escort his visitors around the Post, and dine with them at the Hotel. There are many pleasant things to do during his spare time. And the Plebe has more time of his own than any man of the upper three classes...
...Greene Murder Case (Paramount). Since in writing murder stories an author's development, if it takes place at all, must be along the line of murders, S. S. Van Dine, who made his first reputation out of stories with one murder, went on brilliantly to four in the Greene family. Director Frank Tuttle, who photographed The Canary Murder Case, used District Attorney Markham, Detective Sergeant Heath and Super-Detective Philo Vance (William Powell) again to find out who was killing all the Greenes. Perhaps because of the great number of Greenes who must die before the murderer is tracked...
Fortnight ago Willard Huntingdon Wright, more famed as "S. S. Van Dine," detective story writer, gave up a murder case because it was outside his jurisdiction as Honorary Police Commissioner of Bradley Beach, N. J. Last week the mystery was taken up by John D. Coughlin, lately ousted as chief of New York City detectives for his failure to solve the Rothstein murder. Quickly tracking nebulous clues, Detective Coughlin caught the driver of the murder car within three days, closed in on the actual murderers. Readers of Van Dine books (The Bishop Murder Case, The Canary Murder Case), are still...
Reported by Police Commissioner Van Dine: 1) it was a hold-up and not a murder plot; 2) Since the shooting occurred in Neptune City it was beyond his jurisdiction...