Word: quests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacMurray & Crawford are an American and his bride in prewar Germany, but not on anything so innocent as a honeymoon. In quest of a secret which Great Britain needs to know they get involved in disguises, a Liszt-accompanied murder, battles with the Gestapo. They also run afoul of such suspicious figures as Basil Rathbone and Conrad Veidt. Strangely enough, it all adds up to a better-than-average summertime melodrama...
...chunky, good-natured, shiftless Mexican, Melendes had been arrested three nights earlier in a raffish nightclub (one with women hostesses and rooms upstairs). He had admitted his part in a $40 robbery. His cell mate and partner in the crime, Andrew Brinkley, testified at the perfunctory in quest that Melendes had fallen off his bunk, cracked his head on the concrete floor. The coroner's verdict: death caused by kidney disease and congestion of the brain...
...steadily-shrinking civilian clientele at the Busy School has recently objected to her efforts for the servicemen, claiming that she gets "all the good girls" for them, leaving the regular students to fond for themselves in the eternal quest. A mixer yesterday afternoon for all men at the School, plus any dates they may bring, plus representatives of several reputable schools (reputable meaning having attractive girls) is her answer to this, plus the statement that the IA'ers have been here long enough to have their own girls...
...Magyar folk music. With the failure of the new Hungarian Music Society in which he played a major role, Bartok, not yet appreciated by the musical world, retired in 1912 in order to make a thorough study of folk music, going as far afield as Biskra in 1913 in quest of Arabian music. In 1917, his "intellectual ballet" the "Woodcut Prince" was given a performance in Budapest, and when this was followed a year later by the opera "Bluebeard's Castle" both critics and public alike looked upon him with favor. He has continued to compose, in fact producing...
...Suite 354, under the agile direction of George S. Kaufman, troop susceptible generals, admirals and rubber czars, footsore strangers in search of a bed, snooty wives in search of their husbands, harassed hotel managers in quest of a settlement, marines, FBI men, portly women judges and a bayoneted lady sniper from the Soviet Embassy. Every time one of the hostesses heads for the altar, yet another face appears with bad news. But the three girls snag their prey at last, and Washington subsides into routine pandemonium...