Word: sleuth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CASE OF THE CARELESS KITTEN- Erie Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). Another brisk, shrewdly plotted and forthrightly told Perry Mason story, in which the adroit lawyer-sleuth cooperates with an intelligent and wary police lieutenant. Mason's analysis of feline antics supplies the payoff clue to an elusive killer and a pair of carefully contrived murders...
...death of a gentleman, traveling on an alias during an extramarital holiday in a fashionable Southern hotel, greatly excites an inquisitive sociologist with a detecting bee and a great number of odd "contacts" in quite unscholarly circles. A profusion of red herrings delays the action slightly, but the learned sleuth's highly individual methods offset minor defects...
John W. Sullivan '43 gave the best performance as Professor Van Helsing, the eminent vampire sleuth, while J. Bradley Cumings III '46 shared the honors as a convincingly thirsty Dracula. Claire Birsh's ingenue apprentice vampire and Adams Nickerson '46, playing the mad Renfield, provide competent portrayals of difficult characters. Bob Keahey '45, who gave up acting this time to direct the play, deserves a large part of the credit for a successful production. The supporting cast is erratic, but surprisingly able in places...
Last week an executive order gave powerful implementation to these Army-Navy methods. It instructed Army, Navy, Treasury, WPB, RFC and the Maritime Commission all to sleuth for unreasonable profits. Don Nelson of WPB will establish rules and policies governing a new system of running audits...
Ominous is the word for Alexander Granach's performance as a Gestapo bloodhound. The squat, square-headed, muscle-bound sleuth ticks along with the sinister near silence of a clock. He never speaks; his approach is heralded by the patient squeak of his shoes. Actor Granach knew his role well. One of Germany's best actors, but a Jew, he escaped from his country a stride ahead of the real Gestapo...