Word: knotts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dial "M" for Murder (by Frederick Knott) is that always welcome visitor, an unusually satisfying thriller. Playwright Knott is not only more ingenious than most members of the current Spine Trust, but being British is more urbane as well. Maurice Evans has abandoned battlements and blank verse to play a dinner-jacketed modern villain, while John Williams, as a Scotland Yard inspector, sees justice done with engaging suavity...
...himself is ostentatiously elsewhere. The murder goes off on schedule-except that it's the wife who, with a handy pair of scissors, dispatches the killer. This being only the middle of Act II, a lot more has to happen, and it is the measure of Playwright Knott's resourcefulness that villainy does not slump, nor chicanery deteriorate, nor sleuthing go to seed...
...program, the board nominated Nicholas A. Wahl 1G, for the State Department James E. Knott 2G and Melville J. Kahn 2G. Robert L. Lasky '51 received the nomination for the department's summer student assistant program and David J. Carpenter 1G for the professor-student seminar...