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Last week, Grofe's latest composition, a ballet called Cafe Society, was given its first hearing in Chicago's skyscraper Opera House. Choreography by Philadelphia's Catherine Littlefield, capers by Chicago's newly imported Littlefield Ballet, helped make it agreeable to ballet fans and tired businessmen alike. A good-natured, showy satire on night-club life, its scene recalled Manhattan's El Morocco; its main characters were thickly disguised as Heavyweight Max Baer, "Chain-store Nymph" Barbara Hutton, Columnist Lucius Beebe...
Pretty bad for a Carroll were the proceedings in South Paris court where twelve stern-eyed Mainemen had heard young Paul Dwyer, serving a life sentence for the murder of 63-year-old Dr. James Littlefield, accuse Father Carroll of the crime (TIME, Aug. 15). Father Carroll flatly denied his guilt. Confronted on the stand with the fact that his alibi (serving a summons) covered not the night of the crime but the night before, Francis Carroll stuttered, reddened, said he had mixed his dates...
Last week, Barbara Carroll went to the South Paris courthouse to see her father, on trial for the murder of Dr. Littlefield...
...General Ralph M. Ingalls had reopened a closed case. The story: Barbara had told Dwyer of relations with her father to stop him from reproaching himself about her lost virginity; Dwyer taxed Carroll with it and the father threatened, bullied, finally accused him of making Barbara pregnant; when Dr. Littlefield, called in to examine the girl, learned of the incest, Carroll strangled the doctor, forced Dwyer to drive away with the body; during Dwyer's trial, Carroll had scared him into silence...
Called to the stand to substantiate his story, Convict Dwyer first collapsed. Next day he took the stand, cocky and glib. When defense lawyers asked him what had happened to Mrs. Littlefield, who was not mentioned in the Carroll indictment, young Dwyer replied that Carroll had strangled her with Dwyer's belt in a remote spot in the hills. "I turned my face away," said Paul Dwyer...