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...They Were Married (Columbia) begins with a conflict between a divorcee (Mary Astor) and a widower (Melvyn Douglas), who pretend to dislike each other when they find themselves temporarily snowbound in a winter resort, quickly draws into the conflict the woman's small daughter (Edith Fellows), the man's small son (Jackie Moran). Having estranged their elders, the children manage to unite them once more by getting them jailed as suspected kidnappers...
Bascom Dinsmore (in no way related to the famed Elsie and portrayed by the aforementioned Mr. King) has escaped from the cares of London society to the solitude of a snowbound, windswept radio hut in Labrador. This solitude has, after two years, become oppressively complete and Dinsmore seems on the point of yielding to the suggestion of his Eskimo man and accepting the services of a native lady of all work. The unhappy man is saved from this greasy fate by the sudden appearance of Sir James Fenton, noted English sportsman and prig, and his comely fiancee, Ethel Campion...
...present himself in the role of a human being. They had to think up many ways of dramatizing the milk of human kindness that flowed in his heart. At great pains they brought Bryan Untiedt, Colorado boy who the Press headlined as having saved 16 children marooned in a snowbound school bus, to Washington to play a mouth organ for the Hoovers. No such dramatization is required by Franklin Roosevelt, but the same machinery still turns. Twelve-year- old Thomas Fitzgerald, of Ocean City, N. J., ill in hospital with lockjaw, received, for no reason that the Press could discover...
Massachusetts felt the full impact. In Charlestown prison, the storm brought 24 hours of unexpected life to three condemned murderers because their executioner was snowbound. A snow plow ran into a train on the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn line, badly injured two passengers. At Worcester all stores closed. School was called off for thousands of Massachusetts children. The Eastern Dog Show in Boston had to delay most of its class competitions a day because exhibitors were stranded out of town. A midnight train from Boston due in Manhattan early next morning arrived twelve hours late. U. S. Route...
MURDER IN THE CALAIS COACH-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Basing the tale on America's great kidnapping, the author brings the archcriminal to his doom on a snowbound Jugoslavian express. Coincidentally the rotund, penetrating Poirot is abroad. Clues abound. Alibis are frequent and unassailable but nothing confounds the great Hercule who, after propounding alternative solutions to his jury of two, retires modestly...