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...stars this time were also more propitious. Madam is a light philosophic fantasy, about equidistant between Saroyan and Thornton Wilder, yet with a flavor and philosophy of its own. It tells how, from a sense of guilt, Mary Doyle, the heiress daughter of "a Tammany grafter who died in Sing Sing," has turned recluse. Into her parlor steps persuasive Dr. Brightlee, whom the audience has no trouble identifying as the Devil. But this devil is for the most part on the side of the angels-on the side, at any rate, of the world's artists and individualists...
Under the Instep, No Count. Frequently, Fabian made flimsy clues pay big detection dividends. He once flushed a bogus count bent on marrying a U.S. heiress by noting that his shoes had not been polished under the instep, as they would have been had the "count" stayed in swank hotels. Another time Fabian solved a jewel-shop robbery largely because it had been observed that the thief wore a tropical suit and, as he left the scene, cursed a bystander in Arabic. After ferreting out further details from jewel fences, Fabian nabbed a discharged member of the Palestine police force...
...head for study and no heart for work. What he doesn't know about women, however, can be written on the head of one of his aunts' pins. After stripping the sisters of their savings, land and farm, Remo marries a beautiful American pressure-cooker heiress and goes to live with her. in New York. The blow is broken for the loving aunts when Remo tells them that he is not in love but has married for money...
...Manhattan, after interviewing returning notables on the Queen Elizabeth, newsmen caught a glimpse and no more of Conductor Leopold Stokowski, back from Europe incognito (his traveling alias: Anthony Stanley) and minus his heiress wife, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski. Shielding his face with a black coat, he ducked out of his cabin, hurried down the gangplank and off in a waiting limousine...
...year-old Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, the able and coldly aloof Chancellor of the Exchequer. So-called theoretician of the Tory Party, Rab Butler was born in India, the son of a British civil servant, became a Cambridge don after chalking up a brilliant scholastic record there, married the heiress of the wealthy Courtauld textile empire, entered Parliament at 26. He has built up a strong party following among the younger, more liberal Conservatives, acquired impressive public backing with his two austerity-relaxing budgets and his emphasis on "trade, not aid" as the road to recovery...