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...FOURTEENTH TRUMP-Judson P. Philips- Dodd. Mead ($2). The tough and tricky tale of a Manhattan hotel-room murder that puts a pretty girl in the shadow of the chair, leads Broadway Gambler Danny Coyle and his Harvard-graduate assistant through a dexterously crooked bridge club to a shoot-it-out finish. Credible tough-guy stuff, well packed with excitement...
Fant calls her "sorrel top" but tells her frankly that he is "not the marrying kind." Nevertheless, when she wins a horse race for him, he can't resist. In mid-honeymoon in New Orleans, America learns the truth about him: Fant is a gambler and a dastard. For a while she supports him by selling off her trousseau to pleasure women (Fant is fit to die laughing). But Fant kills a fellow gambler, then dives off a sternwheeler. America returns to a Kentucky tobacco farm, gets to work supporting herself, surrounded by some of the richest Scottish, Irish...
...whose makeup is much better than her performance. Elsewhere she is a prairie wife, a Sacramento boardinghouse keeper, a croupier in San Francisco's Crystal Palace, etc. Her most remarkable achievement is to win back her husband's money, livestock and other chattels from a gambler (Brain Donlevy), who is so stunned that he trails her like a whipped dog for eight years. Broadway (Universal) is tired. It has had a long day, and deserves a rest. When it first appeared on Broadway 16 years ago, it was an exciting, hard-hitting, accurate drama of Manhattan speakeasy days...
...Some Alsab backers may have been influenced by mysterious handbills that were distributed at the many Pimlico gates the day of the race. The handbills read; Alsah Can't Lose. The tout: a New York gambler who had made a wager of $1,000 against $3,000 that Alsab would go to the post the favorite
...that Russia can and probably will fight Hitler to a standstill this summer; some think that Russia may even inflict outright defeat on the Nazis. U.S. military opinion is that neither Britain nor the U.S. has any accurate knowledge of Russia's military strength. Stalin, like the tough gambler that he is, plays his cards close to his chest, trusts no man, not even his new partners, with what is in his hand...