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...beautiful adventuress named Dorothy Lamour comes in, mistakes him for the detective and engages him to find her kidnapped uncle. From there, the action leads through various typically Chandlerian hangouts-one of those vast country mansions (big enough, as Narrator Hope puts it, to shoot quail in the foyer); a sinister sanitarium; a Washington hotel in which Hope, by now framed for murder, finds life complicated by a convention of private detectives. While Boss Menace Charles Dingle cajoles Hope in a ripe julep accent, Peter Lorre, the busiest Menace, plants knives and clues all over the place, and hulking...
Questions as to methods of approach, escape from public surveillance, and strategy for severing connections were waved aside as Gaulois' own gray-flannel ducks, Leo and Harvey, waddled in from the foyer. Harvey laid a pin-striped...
...simple black dress. She waited quietly while Koussevitzky scampered out front to listen. Then she sang Handel's My Father and Where Shall I Fly?; two lieder and a rhythmic Hall Johnson spiritual. Her singing brought the house down. After the concert, Koussevitzky led her to the foyer, where the ladies of the audience were drinking tea, nibbling tiny sandwiches and acclaiming her. Said Koussevitzky, who used to be a cellist: "Always I try to make the cello play like the human voice and now . . . her voice is like a cello. . . . Such musicality! Such diction! Never have I heard...
...kind of efficiency expert for Curtis Publishing Co., and made a small fortune inventing new printing processes. He found Street & Smith possessors of a building full of dusty rolltop desks, and coasting on its dusty laurels. He moved the offices into a skyscraper, and fixed up the foyer like a cocktail lounge. Then he went to work dusting off the laurels...
Perhaps the change that disturbed the old Prince most was something shiny and plastic in the Casino's foyer: a U.S. and a French slot machine, both geared to take one-franc coins. But, plus ça change, plus c'est la meêe chose. Slot machines or roulette tables-Prince Louis still had his principality. Europe was still willing to take chances...