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Story of a young duchess who marries her steward, only to be persecuted and finally strangled to death at the command of her disapproving brothers, The Duchess of Malfi. swirls with the dark, cruel, guilty emotions of the Elizabethan theatre. Its splendid imaginativeness, its impassioned poetry, lift it above mere violence and gore. But it is horrifying rather than terrifying: there is so much bloodshed at the end it is impossible to keep stabs...
Cabin Boy Paul Johnson, who had just emerged from the "glory hole," was swept overboard clutching a shipmate's spectacles. Steward Schwerdtfeger grasped Mrs. William Buckler by one foot just as she was going over the rail. In the ship's hospital Dr. Thomas Fister was sent spinning with bottles, instruments, in water up to his knees, staggered back to aid the engine-room storekeeper, whose appendix he had just removed. Paul van Zeeland, former Premier of Belgium, in his cabin with his wife and four children, was knocked unconscious. A kettle of boiling water and grease engulfed...
Five Came Back (RKO Radio). In a U. S. airliner headed for Panama City, twelve set out. There are two pilots and a steward, an old professor and his wife on vacation, an effete young man eloping with a millionairess, a big-shot racketeer's little son in care of one of the mob, a tough girl on the lam from her past, an anarchist returning to his homeland gallows with a captor to whom he means a $5,000 reward...
...wild tropical storm the steward slips overboard, the ship yaws blindly past Panama City, finally comes to a desperate, forced landing in a South American jungle. One prop is bent, one motor dead, the radio transmitter out, but nobody is hurt...
...coddled by a sister 21 years older, who never let him attend school. As a young man his painstakingly realistic illustrations of a book on parrots got him a job sketching the private menagerie of the Earl of Derby. His first meals were taken with the Earl's steward, but Lear's charm and humor soon won him a chair in the dining room...