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...Fakir of Ipi has not popped up now for over a year, but last week the British reported that Waziristan tribesmen were again shooting at stray Indian soldiers. At New Delhi it was quickly concluded that the Fakir had gone on the warpath once more. Matters became so serious that regular Army communiqués were issued. "Our casualties were light," read one which might well have described the Western Front. "The second of two columns encountered considerable opposition...
...Patrolman Philip G. Pierman Jr.'s) began coming in over the short wave. What made the listeners sit up and take notice was, mingling with it, the voice of a woman. Obviously Pierman was in his patrol car, but obviously he was investigating no housebreaker, collaring no stray dog. Headquarters listened with all their ears, unable, if they wanted, to crowd into...
Main Street Lawyer (Republic) has nothing to do with Author Bellamy Partridge's best-selling Country Lawyer (recently bought for pictures by Paramount). It is a warning to slick city gangsters not to stray farther afield than the suburbs. If they do, they may run spang into tall, grim-mouthed Edward Ellis, as happens when Gangster Marco (Harold Huber) goes a-rusticating. But Edward Ellis, who helped make memorable the cheaply made quickie, A Man To Remember, does not turn the trick with this thin-spun tale of village politics, catty gossip, calf love...
Besides summarizing hundreds of plays and spotting hundreds of players and playwrights, the book touches such stray topics as theatrical cemeteries, the 36 Dramatic Situations, explains a mass of technical terms and theatre lingo. Experts have written its longer articles: Raymond Massey on Acting, John Mason Brown on Criticism, Lucius Beebe on First Nights, William Fields on Press Agents, Aline Bernstein on Costumes, Arthur Richman on Playwrighting...
Well, one thing leads to another ("It'll be 15 minutes before the National Broadcasting Company will be ready with the next program, so meanwhile you and I . . .") and almost before the homebody realizes it, Ted has to rush off, leaving behind intriguing thoughts, stray wisps of poetic yarn, unwashed tea things. To folks thus beguiled, Ted Malone is Shelley, Prince Charming, Don Juan, Galahad in one. One woman has been wiring him daily and hopefully for six months, seeking a rendezvous. From Missouri, where Ted used to visit in the evening, a once-misunderstood wife confessed to curling...