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...Justice of the Peace Harvey was out sweeping the sidewalk in front of his office. Naturally he noticed when a car roared up and stopped just across the street at the post office. The post office belongs to Nell Tingley. She rents it for $11.75 a month to the Government and lives in the two rooms over it. A nice woman, from Virginia, but everyone knew her husband was Roy ("Pete") Traxler, one of the convicts who escaped from a Texas prison farm on July 8, who later kidnapped Baird H. Markham Jr., Yale junior (son of a New York...
...only 20 when he wrote his first musicomedy, La La Lucille. The same year he brought out his first hit song Swanee which sold 2,250,000 Victrola records. From 1920 to 1924 he wrote the music for George White's Scandals. The Astaires danced to his Our Nell, Sweet Little Devil, Lady Be Good! From hit shows like Stop Flirting, Primrose, Rainbow, Oh Kay, Funny Face, Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy, Gershwin became a rich man, filled his penthouse with expensive furniture, African sculpture, a Mustel pipe organ, a fine collection of French moderns. George Gershwin...
...present version Dame May Whitty is the psychic—a term which is itself a hallowed souvenir—who tries to solve a murder by making the twelve possible suspects hold hands in the dark. Things look bad for Nell O'Neill (Madge Evans) when John Wales (Henry Daniell) is stabbed at the seance, but clear up when, at the next psychic session, Dick Crosby (Thomas Beck) uses lampblack to prove that naughty Dr. Mason (Charles Trowbridge) was not holding hands. The Thirteenth Chair still saves a septuagenarian shiver for the moment when Madame La Grange reveals the murder knife stuck...
Covent Garden is London's vegetable market and its opera centre. For centuries it has been the playhouse centre too. Charles II lost his heart there to an actress named Nell Gwyn. Last winter a more reckless King lost his crown, and for his brother, who will be anointed this month, all Britain is preparing elaborate celebrations. None will be prouder than that of the Covent Garden Opera. For a month painters, carpenters and electricians have busied themselves inside the Opera House...
...dozen rehearsals went on simultaneously. Last week Covent Garden received one of the most elegant audiences in its history. Gentlefolk in tiaras and white ties took shortcuts through fruit lorries as fragrant as they were when Nell Gwyn peddled oranges there. Turbaned Eastern princes spanked themselves going through the Opera House's swingdoors. Tier upon tier of the gold & scarlet boxes* were full of distinguished Britons and foreigners as distinguished. Peppery old Sir Thomas Beecham waved his baton. The curtain rose on a storm-tossed ship, the first scene in Verdi's Otello. Tenor Giovanni Martinelli...