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...Super-Sleuth" is the "also" feature, and cannot be saved by Jack Oakie's wisecracking or Ann Sothern's smile...
Charlie Chan on Broadway (20th Century-Fox). The widely-traveled, slant-eyed sleuth (Warner Oland) in his 15th manhunt...
...with bookcases full of precious old directories, bound volumes of The Commercial & Financial Chronicle and railroad almanacs from 1862 on. The more he studied old security issues the more convinced he became that owners of many forgotten bonds held title to vast if watery wealth. And because out of Sleuth Smythe's capacious hat gratifying miracles sometimes popped, trustees and executors got in the habit of laying the contents of old tin boxes before Mr. Smythe's blazing blue eyes, red face and Edwardian whiskers. Mr. Smythe loved to talk, hated to give any information except...
...Case of the Stuttering Bishop (First National): heiresses, true and false, wittily entangled by Donald Woods (as Sleuth Perry Mason) and his efficient secretary Ann Dvorak...
Seattle householders were plagued and puzzled by a thief who opened their milk bottles early in the morning, stole the cream, left skimmed milk. Garageman Kenneth Short set out to catch the culprit in a camera trap. Having read in LIFE, Jan. 18, of a similar device, Sleuth Short one day last week connected his camera's shutter with the bottle's cap by a wire through a milk-proof tube. Next day he had a fine picture of the thief-a sleek, fat, impudent blue jay. Subsequent spying revealed that a flock of less gifted jays followed...