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OVER MY DEAD BODY-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nero Wolfe, who once fought in the Montenegrin Army, has a bit of a time with Balkan intrigue and a couple of quaintly accented lovelies named Lovchen and Tormic. One of them is probably his daughter; either might have murdered one of the fencers at a Manhattan salle d'armes. Archie Goodwin does all the work hvala Bogu (thank...
HAMLET HAD AN UNCLE-Branch Cabell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Author Cabell's Hamlet is the purported original of Shakespeare's, as found in assorted Viking sagas. Like the Melancholy Dane, the Viking of Jutland poses as insane (only more so), murders his stepfather. But the Viking Hamlet was big, blond and extrovert. He did not see his father's ghost. He killed not only his stepfather, but all his stepfather's courtiers. He married a guileless English princess, abandoned her for a bloodthirsty, hawknosed hank of hair, thereby starting a sequence of murders which ends only...
...Maney's principal problems was to collect enough ushers for ordinary road shows, while he was overrun with ushering talent during the weeks when we would have The Chocolate Soldier, Merry Widow and like extravaganzas of the day. Marie Dressier and even highbrows like Geraldine Farrar packed 'em in, including dozens of unneeded ushers...
Siegfried et al. In the early 1920s, when the late Enrico Caruso died and Soprano Geraldine Farrar retired, the Metropolitan's Italian opera began to limp downhill. But its Wagnerian opera has goosestepped steadily on. When big, blue-eyed Soprano Kirsten Flagstad joined the company in 1935, Wagnerian opera began to boom, played to the biggest box office the Met has known since Caruso's day. Principal drawing card in the Met's Wagnerian productions was Soprano Flagstad's bosomy personality and earth-mother voice. But she could not have done it all by herself. Supporting...
Thus Robert Henriques introduces the hero of No Arms, No Armour, which is the winner in the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition for 1939 (sponsored by Publishers Farrar & Rinehart, various foreign publishers and the Literary Guild). As an officer and a gentleman, Windrush represents a tradition which causes the English distinct pride and a certain worry. Author Henriques worries over him like a maiden aunt. What is somewhat less credible, he makes him a subject of tender concern to his major ("Sammy") and to "Daddy" Watson, the hardbitten subaltern of the introductory scene...