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...Lilly Turner). His current production, neither good nor bad, is laid in a filling station on the edge of a U. S. desert. Peddling gas and oil to itinerant Mexicans, Reno divorcers, old folks on their way to die in the elephant valley of California, is the business of Olga (Jean Dixon, minus the acerbity so brilliantly displayed in Once in a Lifetime) and her young sister Myra. Surprised and shocked is Olga when her sinister onetime boy friend (Robert Gleckler of Broadway) arrives and, snarling out of the side of his mouth, demands a hideout for himself and young...
...Lackland. As usual, Mr. Lackland is playing the part of a rich young man with a Lot to Explain. All the giggling girls, comics and doormen have been interviewed when Inspector Ellery comes at last to the temperamental diva, Sonya Sonya. The diva turns out to be Olga Baclanova, a fullblown Muscovite who in recent years has adorned the films. During one of the lulls in the investigation she appears, in a white satin gown which shimmers and hints, to sing with a somewhat uncertain falsetto a song called "You Love Me." Miss Baclanova tells Inspector Ellery: "I read...
...officers had sweathearts, but I was to yang and to inconstant to bound me with a gerl; prefair to flay from one to a other, as a butterflay who flay from one flower to a other one." Later he had many a protracted affair-with Angelina, with Olga, with his Aunt Emma, with Lili. "the noty gerl" who betrayed him for another...
...spite of his pleading, she sails unwed for a vacation in Europe. En route she meets an attractive bounder (Sidney Blackmer) who dazzles her with poetic maunderings and the information that on his English estate there is a pool where Poets Byron and Brooke once swam. Also aboard is Olga (Muriel Kirkland), another self-made woman whose belief it is that "all men are alike. One day they kiss you; the next day they kick you.'' Cynthia blithely replies: "That's all right. You can see them every other...
...copyright to his nom de plume, a valuable asset. His breezy column is famed for "plugging" favorites. Philadelphia society, according to Joseph Hergesheimer who likes parties and lives near there, is as dull as what the society editors write about it. Oldest and most reliable society editor is Olga Gel- hause of the Bulletin. No socialite, she rarely goes to parties, rarely even has to telephone. Submitted material from the Best Families floods her desk. The presence of Judith Jennings, daughter of a prominent Germantown minister, on the Record has brought that liberal, crusad- ing, sometimes vulgar sheet into homes...