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...amateur bookmaker out for some ready cash, he has welshed on a ?3,000 daily-double payoff, and the man he owes is hot on his trail; 2) he can only honor the debt by selling his moldering ancestral mansion, Towcester Abbey, to an American millionairess who has qualms about its dampness; 3) his fiancee Jill misinterprets his 2 a.m. exit from the millionairess' room and promptly returns his ring. Trusty Jeeves settles these and a dozen other complications with his customary aplomb. Bill and Jill are put back on the cooing road to matrimony, and Jeeves finesses...
Marlowe's latest case drops into his arms when he props up a drunk outside an expensive Los Angeles nightspot. The drunk is a weak-willed chap named Terry Lennox who has trouble accepting the twin facts that his beautiful wife is a nymphomaniac and a millionairess. When she has her skull bashed and "gets dead" a few weeks later, Terry seems the logical suspect, except to Marlowe. After two more violent deaths and some incidental lady-killings by Marlowe, the whole case is tied up very suitably...
Actress Katharine Hepburn, 44, traveling in slacks as usual, arrived in England to discuss playing the title role in a movie of George Bernard Shaw's The Millionairess, the play which seemed tailored to order...
...Millionairess (by George Bernard Shaw) is probably one of the best plays ever written by a man near 80, but it is one of the least satisfactory of Shaw's. It might by now have been thankful for shelf space without aspiring to stage production, had not Katharine Hepburn dared the termagant title role in London last summer and achieved a sensation. As the richest and presumably the most roughshod-riding woman in. England-possessing 30 million pounds and probably 40 million horsepower-she makes every entrance an eruption and every exit a bombardment...
...have been said to show promise. As it stands, it is simply a vehicle-a monster bulldozer-for Actress Hepburn, who bangs about in it with gusto. She has come far from the days when Dorothy Parker described her as running the gamut from A to B. In The Millionairess she runs it from ff to fff. The effect is often enjoyable and ultimately monotonous...