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That night she and her fellow wanderers slept in Madison, Ind., next night in the Blackstone at Chicago. There she delivered a Simmons Bed broadcast, lunched with Rufus Dawes & wife, went to the Fair, smiled her broadest at newshawks when she told them: "Please don't feel badly if I have to evade you, because that's what I'm going to do from now on. This is not an official visit. When I'm with the President it's different." Bobbing up five hours later in front of the Fair's Administration Building, Mrs. Roosevelt was asked by reporters...
Invitation to a Murder (by Rufus King; Ben Stein, producer). Never a Dashiell Hammett when he was writing his murder tales. Playwright King's dialog is bookish, lifeless, unconvincing. But he has a knack of conveying a sense of horror ; in one Invitation to a Murder scene a rich and powerful California lady lies in a deathlike trance, shrouded, while the grisly organ music of her funeral fills her mansion. Lorinda Channing (Gale Sondergaard) feigns death with the aid of a struggling physician (Walter Abel) to trap a relative who has been trying to poison her. Returning from...
...Oakland, Calif. Marjorie Wetherell decided not to marry her fiancé, Charles Rufus Baker. To save her embarrassment Fiance Baker suggested that she go ahead with the wedding and he would appear to jilt her by not showing up. Last week she was suing him. Reason: he had broken his promise, married her at the wedding...
...LESSER ANTILLES CASE-Rufus King-Crime Club ($2). Nine castaways, at sea in an open boat, believe two of their number have been murdered. Assigned to the case, Lieutenant Valcour meets another death, must go to the wreck to pursue his investigation, becomes both judge and executioner...
Appointed last week by President Roosevelt to the U. S. Naval Academy's Board of Visitors for 1934-35 were Presidents Rufus Bernhard von Kleinsmid of Southern California; Kenneth Charles Morton Sills of Bowdoin; Marion Luther Brittain of Georgia Technology; Charles Russ Richards of Lehigh; Ralph Earle of Worcester Polytechnic; William Coleman Nevils of Georgetown and Dean Harry Ellsworth Clifford of Harvard Engineering School...