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...rings a few changes on that tired radio perennial, the evening mystery show. Based on a character created by Whodunit Writer Craig Rice, Malone deals with a Chicago criminal lawyer whose avowed hobby is "collecting cliches." Malone has other off-beat mannerisms: he avoids fights, employs a masseur, and dislikes guns because "they remind me of weddings." Currently unsponsored, Malone had some fast-paced dialogue by Scripter Eugene Wang, is packed with such novelties as an effeminate gunman, a strait-laced gambler fretting about his daughter's morals, a policeman who was on the right track from the start...
...winner's rewards: $300 a week, stardom as Tamba, and tier own masseur (since chimps have sluggish blood circulation, the A.S.P.C.A. requires that chimp actors get a good rubdown after swimming scenes). Otherwise, the new star's life will be no tied of orchids. All her money will not even buy her a square meal-she must be kept hungry during the working day, so that the lure of a banana or candy can be used to help along her acting talents...
...after a rubdown from the studio masseur, he takes a nap in a soundproofed chamber off his office. Awakened at 8, he dines at the studio, sometimes with Mrs. Zanuck or his French tutor (he has been studying French on the run ever since he was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1936), sometimes alone, staring grimly at a television set. At 9, he is looking at more rushes or rough-cut complete films. Then he gives instructions to cutters, producers and directors who join him in relays into the night. He sees everything that is put on film...
...Clinic to take pictures of a radiant Rita with Princess Yasmin on the pillow beside her, sound asleep. Ahead of Rita lay a sojourn in Aly's 15-room chalet at Gstaad, the winter sports resort, where she would rest and recuperate under the care of a special masseur and the fond eyes, of course, of Aly, his pressagent and anybody who could read a newspaper...
This is history told by a masseur who sometimes snooped. The late Heinrich Himmler believed that his frequent, gnawing stomach pains could be relieved by massage. He went to a masseur named Felix Kersten, who now, through Himmler's thoughts-while-being-rubbed, tells what the peace might have been had Germany...