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...Rubinstein. There was a concert to be played in Boston, so he packed his suitcases, not forgetting a shoe bag crammed with the good-luck charms that his four children have given him over the years?baby shoes, a turquoise marble, a set of jacks, a pipe-cleaner doll, an acorn, a crumbled plaster angel. He put on his fur-lined blue suede shoes and his long navy blue overcoat with the wide Persian lamb lapels, cocked his black beaver fedora rakishly over one eye, and headed for the airport...
Frederick Knott, who also wrote Dial M for Murder, has left this plot-boiler perforated with illogic. At one point Lee Remick has located the doll, hidden it beyond likelihood of discovery, and decoyed the thugs out of the apartment. Instead of staying to be tortured or killed, she ought to call the police or flee. Playwright Knott seems to have forgotten that to scare a playgoer out of his senses, one must first satisfy his good sense...
...doll containing two pounds of heroin has fallen inadvertently into the hands of a photographer and his blind wife (Lee Remick). They do not know what it contains, and after the husband is lured away, Lee Remick does not even know where the doll is, though an unlikely-looking safe is part of the living-room furniture. Two musclemen and their brainmaster do know about the doll, and they want...
...began, he was 38 and had never fired a shot in anger. When the war was over, he was a tough, cunning, unbeatable commander of cavalry-and a man with a mission. Astounded by the incompetence of his superiors ("generals with no more brains or backbone than a bran doll"), he angrily determined to "put matters right." He was well equipped for it. At 48, Allenby was a huge and powerful man with a chest like the hump of Africa and a head like Gibraltar, not to mention a tongue that could flay a rhinoceros. When "the Bull...
...made for a lonely childhood. "I have no recollection of games or playing with other children," she recalls. "My favorite occupation was to stand on a high table with the servants gathered around me and deliver thunderous political speeches." She taught her dolls to march in Mahatma Gandhi's protest demonstrations. Then other dolls would race up and lead the demonstrators off to jail. One of the callers who sometimes helped the lonely little girl stage the doll demonstrations was a frail Congress Party worker, Lal Bahadur Shastri...