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...Engineer Jones's honor, the Jackson post office put on sale special 3? stamps with his picture and that of the locomotive that Casey drove on his last ride. After a parade and concert, aged (76) Sim Webb, who had sat on the fireman's side of the Cannonball Express cab that night, rose and told again how he had jumped to safety before the crash. Casey's widow Janie, eightyish but still perky enough to relish an occasional nip of bourbon, also had her say. She indignantly denied the song lines attributed...
...down. Hitchcock exploits the situation as much for chuckles as for chills. The result is an entertaining show, handsomely produced against a London background, studded with effective scenes and enlivened by an excellent cast that includes an uncannily young and beautiful Marlene Dietrich and able British Comedian Alistair Sim...
...completely winning as a student actress who tries to clear a murder suspect by impersonating the maid of a musicomedy star. Wilding plays the detective with quiet charm, and Todd's acting as the suspect will not let down moviegoers who liked him in The Hasty Heart. Comedian Sim makes his artful most of the heroine's eccentric father. If anyone steals the show, it is Veteran Dietrich. Dressed to kill and chanting languorous ballads in a husky off-key, she creates an acid-tinged portrait of a glamorous bad lady of the theater...
Antenor No. 2. Cristina's Antenor is the son of the late Bolivian Tin King Simón Patiño. Though the Patino holdings have been estimated at a comfortable $1 billion, Antenor has never been profligate (he once put in several tax-exempt years as Bolivia's ambassador to London). Cristina managed, however, to separate him from an even half-million dollars after a 1944 separation, won a court judgment for another $500,000 by proving some indiscretions with a brunette model named Francesca Simms in 1945. This irritated Antenor to the point of trying...
...race is being sponsored by the Union Boat Club, under the direction a Quinby Taylor, a Boston attorney. It is the club's sim to start up a topflight Union crew, and Taylor hopes that today's race may stir up interest in such a crew. The club would like to enter the American Honley races with a boat good enough it place--manned by newly-graduated MIT and Harvard oarsmen...