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...Star liner steamed out of Southampton for New York last week was a pretty Scottish nursemaid whose name was not printed in the passenger list. She was whisked incognito to her cabin, where a stalwart British stewardess was posted before the door to keep out undesirable visitors. Nurse Betty Gow, from whose care the world's most famed baby was snatched on the windy night of March 1, 1932, was returning to the U. S. Surrounded by all the melodrama of a penny-dreadful, Nurse Gow, it was whispered, was to be met in New York Harbor...
...Nurse Gow is of no real importance to defense or prosecution. But the thick conspiratorial atmosphere enveloping her voyage to the U. S. typified the whole course of the incredible crime and its fabulous aftermath...
...that he recognized the voice of Hauptmann as the one which called "Hey, doctor, over here, doctor!" the night that he and Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon passed the $50,000 ransom over a Bronx cemetery wall in a vain attempt to get the baby back. About all Nurse Gow can say is that she did not see the kidnapper. Joseph Perrone, a New York taxicab driver, will identify Hauptmann as the man who gave him a dollar to take the message to Dr. Condon which opened up the ill-starred negotiations. The inexplicable "Jafsie" was able only "partially...
...wife (Peggy Wood) whom he ogles without recognizing. The adapters in their effort to oil away the creaks have injected many a laborious 1933 wisecrack. George Meader is going to prison because he neglected to pay his income tax. Someone "passes out." The jail is a "happy hoose-gow," a "jovial jug," a "peppy prison." Strauss's music deserves a real prima donna for the role through which Peggy Wood flounders. Tenor George Meader, sprightlier than ever, seems to have forgotten that he was once good enough to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House. The Pursuit of Happiness...
...play to be presented will be either "World of Light" by Aldous Huxley, or "Gallows Glorious," a story of John Brown, written by Ronald Gow. Final decision will be made on Friday. The production of either of these plays will be the American premiere; both have had excellent seasons in London theatres...