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DEATH AND THE DANCING FOOTMAN-Ngaio Marsh-Little, Brown ($2). A deadly Maori instrument extinguishes a young Englishman at house party where everybody hates or fears everybody else-as prearranged by a thrill-seeking host. First half is brilliant British conversation piece, the remainder a prime bit of deduction and clew-chasing by Alleyn of C.I.D...
...last week they were better equipped than World War I soldiers, and were organized, throughout Britain, on efficient military lines. Behind the first defenses, the whole country was so tightly mobilized that children were already organized into experienced fire-fighting groups, and the hiring of a second footman in a large household became a matter for Parliamentary debate on wasting man power...
...definite about the U. S., past or present. Most interesting of the historical designs is Avery Johnson's spirited winter scene for Bordentown, N. J., which shows Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain, who settled on the Delaware River after his brother Napoleon's downfall, watching his footman distribute largess to skaters on his private pond...
...Palace when he tried to heave a pillow over, last week raised another ruckus. When his parents left for the wedding of Princess Irene of Greece and the Duke of Spoleto in Florence, he wanted to go too, had to be respectfully carried back into the palace by a footman...
Duke: "My footman asked me this very morning for a vertical increase...