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Word: findon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hunter Donald Randolph Philip Savilla Stiano Braggiotti Betty Findon Daphne Wilson Colin Derwent Bramwell Fletcher Sir Miles Standing Oswald Yorke Inspector Pember Reynolds Denniston Sergeant Brace Leslie Barrie...

Author: By H. F. K., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/7/1934 | See Source »

...innocent young girl, Betty Findon, is almost engaged to Colin Derwent, embryo barrister; but along comes dashing Philip Savilla, and persuades her to agree to go off with him on a sexual junket to Paris. Derwent, of course, knows that Savilla is a crashing cad, who lures women abroad to a horrible fate--just what this fate is never becomes quite clear. Obviously, he must save poor Betty from this awful monster; but how, he does not know until he sees himself in a dream killing Savilla and establishing his alibi by tampering with the clock, so that it will...

Author: By H. F. K., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/7/1934 | See Source »

...unprincipled villain named Sevilla (Stiano Braggiotti) is about to lure away to Paris Betty Findon (Daphne Warren Wilson), an impressionable young woman who does not know the horrid fate which awaits her in South America. Her childhood sweetheart, Colin Derwent (Bramwell Fletcher, a capable young Englishman returned to Broadway from Hollywood), can save her only by murdering Sevilla. A barrister, young Derwent has to use all the tricks his quick mind can provide to save himself from the gallows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays In Manhattan: Oct. 30, 1933 | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

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