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...Oberammergau, where Bavarian peasants performed their world-famed Passion Play. Schoenberner discovered that the peasant who played the role of Christ was thereby enabled to charge tourists twice as much rent for his rooms as any of his followers (Judas, it was whispered, couldn't find a roomer at any price; and St. John, who was the handsomest of the Apostles, finally eloped to the U.S. with a rich American widow). The second lesson in perspective came through World War I, in which Private Schoenberner, who had hitherto been crazy about horses, was given the job of grooming them...
When Mrs. Hilton, to make ends meet, takes in a roomer, he is Monty Woolley, a retired colonel almost as crustily beaverish as The Man Who Came to Dinner, but a lot nicer to have around. His G.I. grandson is Robert Walker, all feet, thumbs and fumbling charm. Miss Jones (in real life the former Mrs. Walker) falls in love with him and gives him self-confidence. Another visitor is the Hilton's dearest friend, Naval Lieutenant Joseph Gotten. Rejected by Miss Colbert, he has become a perennial bachelor...
...Beneath the bed was the almost naked body of the girl's mother, also murdered. In an adjoining room, pillowed in a pool of blood, stabbed through the skull eleven times by some sharp instrument such as an ice pick or an awl, was a murdered man, a roomer in the apartment...
...natural. On Easter Eve, the mother had apparently been preparing vegetables and a roast for next day's dinner. She had been strangled. Judging from her bruised knuckles and the traces of skin and grey hair later found beneath her nails, she had fought her assailant. The roomer, deaf, had presumably been murdered in his sleep. The murderer had then waited until the daughter came home at 3 a.m. Charles Robinson who lived on the top floor reported, "As I came up the steps leading to the Gedeons' floor [at 2:10 a.m.] I noticed the door...
...Admirers of Harry Leon Wilson's famed Merton of the Movies will find in Wilson's Bunker Bean another introvert so thoroughly frustrated that his past neglect by picturemakers seems inexplicable. Bean (Owen Davis Jr.) is a male secretary who spends evenings typing, gratis, a fellow-roomer's treatise on reincarnation. Gathering from this work that a man's success depends on knowing what he was in past incarnations, Bean consults a seeress who tells him he was Napoleon Bonaparte. To live up to his astral personality, Bean buys a loud checked costume recommended...