Word: pawnshop
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Breen suspects that the thiefs were in the building for some time before attempting to lift the coats. "The only way we'll ever recover the coats is if they are turned over to a pawnshop," he said...
...Henry Miller on 43rd with the presence of Barbara Bel Goddes, Barry Nelson, and Donald Cook, while Welcott Gibbs' Fire Island comedy, Season in the Sun, continues at the Cort on 48th. Eddie Dowling and Joan McCracken close after the weekend at the Booth in Angel in the Pawnshop...
Angel in the Pawnshop (by A. B. Shiffrin; produced by Eddie Dowling & Anthony B. Farrell) is set in a pawnshop -with all the sad variety of its wares, and all the tangled human history behind them, to draw upon. But Playwright Shiffrin has written a sentimental fantasy in which everything that doesn't seem banal seems borrowed, and in which he displays a kind of genius for crushing the life of words...
Into his soft-lighted pawnshop with its softhearted proprietor (Eddie Dowling) flutters, one day, a young girl (Joan McCracken). In full flight from a gangster husband, she has taken refuge inside a 16th Century dream world. Sometimes she dances, sometimes declaims, sometimes just dresses up like Queen Elizabeth. The gangster comes along to precipitate melodrama; other people, who have pawned their valuables, introduce humor, pathos, romance...
Clue. In Phoenix, Ariz., police caught up with Louis Edward Herman, who, before walking out of a pawnshop with a stolen diamond ring, examined a typewriter and absentmindedly pecked out his full name...