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...sends poison-pen letters, strangles a soprano and her maid, saws a huge chandelier from its chain during the performance of an opera in which Christine's rival is singing. The hard-pressed Surete (French FBI) ultimately has to call on Composer Franz Liszt (German Shakespearian Actor Fritz Leiber) to aid them in bagging the cagey Phantom...
...play his insanely jealous Duchess. It had three charming, flounce-skirted children to play the Praslin daughters - Virginia Weidler, June Lockhart, Ann Todd. It had Richard Nichols to play the Duke's pathetic, lovable little son. It had such veteran actors as Walter Hampden, Helen Westley, Fritz Leiber (very sinister as a saintly father confessor). It had décors gorgeous enough to have come straight out of a cinemactor's dream home. Its historical accuracy was as literal, multiplex, unflagging and fatiguing as the iterations of an adding machine. It had Rachel Field's 1840 period...
Some said "The Kid" had been overworked by the turnstile-wooing Indians; others said he had become quaky on his pinnacle of fame. Some said he was bat-shy because one of his wild speedballs had almost killed Hank Leiber; others said Feller was just a flash in the pan. Even at the end of the season, when the Cleveland papoose wound up in a blaze of glory-fanning 18 Detroit Tigers in one game for a new major-league record and topping both leagues with a total of 241 strikeouts-the experts still hesitated to call Feller great...
...most interest to the hot-stovers were the trades the managers cooked up. Most active trader was the New York Giants' Bill Terry. After making an even-Stephen swap with the Chicago Cubs (Bartell, Leiber, Mancuso for Demaree, Jurges, O'Dea) at the minor-league meeting the week before, the Giants paid the Washington Senators $20,000 (plus two players) for hard-hitting Zeke Bonura. then picked up a few more players in the lobby of the Waldorf. Most outstanding trade of the week was the Detroit Tigers' acquisition of Pitcher Freddy Hutchinson, 19, of the Seattle...
...started out as expected when the Yankees got a run off the Giants' No. 1 pitcher, lanky, left-handed Carl Hubbell, in the first inning, and the Yankees' least-prepossessing pitcher, Irving ("Bump") Hadley, held the Giants scoreless. First indication of a Giant revival came when Hank Leiber knocked out a clean single in the second inning. Encouraged, Johnny McCarthy and Harry Banning singled in quick succession, which scored one run. Then Burgess Whitehead slapped a grounder that unluckily struck Danning as he was running from first to second, thus putting him out for being hit with...