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DEATH TURNS THE TABLES-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). A capital battle of wits between gruff old Dr. Fell and a nimble adversary over who killed the rapscallion fiancé of an English jurist's daughter. Doesn't quite come off, but good reading for those who like the puzzle type of story...
...center of a long custody battle between her mother, Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, and her aunt, Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Through last summer and fall she was photographed with a series of escorts that included Cinemactors Bruce Cabot, Randolph Scott, George Montgomery and di Cicco. Her fiancé has been married once before: to the late buxom, blonde Cinemactress Thelma Todd, who died of undetermined causes in 1935, a year after their divorce. His father, the late Pasquale Sr., was a Long Island truck gardener known as "the Broccoli King...
Died. Janet Wood, 23, daughter of Poet Clement Wood; and her fiancé, Frederick Rabe; by shooting; in her Manhattan apartment. Police listed her death as murder, his as suicide...
...years of reading and study." They were wasted. Yankee Tom Bedloe is one of those curly-headed hommes fatals who, safe between the covers of a book, offer sure-fire fascination to literate housewives. There are three women in his life, all at once. One is his Bostonian fiancée Agnes, niece of General Wicks, who has charge of New Orleans. Another is a ruddy whoremistress who uses imitation gold dust in her hair and looks like a lioness. The third is a depraved Irish-French Baroness whose very touch, one is led to believe, can drive...
...humble hat-check girl with grand-opera aspirations, Deanna is yanked to the bedside of a dying tycoon (Charles Laughton) by the old walrus' son (Robert Cummings), who has mislaid his new fiancée. Of course the old man recovers, and the substitute fiancee has to continue her role until the young man falls in love with her and makes it permanent. The picture is a blend of amusing horseplay, bright dialogue and tears, with a noticeable...