Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Christie tries to do both, and succeeds in doing neither very well. Her first act is a static, cumbersome affair, in which Leonard Vole, a murder suspect, relates his story to two English barristers. If action is dull and the dialogue not very witty, the act at least has the virtue of developing a situation and preparing the audience for the courtroom scene to follow. It also leads one to expect that the hero will be saved by some new and ingenious clue, and the drama will be resolved in terms of the circumstances and not the people involved...
...Sullivan, whose pomposity and gruff voice should provide the play with a comic touch. Sir William is indeed pompous, and since Sullivan has a cold his voice is even gruffer than usual, but the playgoer may wait all evening without hearing him speak a genuinely clever line. As the suspect Leonard Vole, Robert Craven creates a peculiarly obnoxious hero, not from bad acting as one might first suspect, but because Agatha Christic has made him so. The witness for the prosecution is Patricia Jessel, as Romaine. She should be commended for bringing some restraint to a part which calls...
...Schoolboy Knew. In Egypt the literary approach is still the most useful. Egypt was conquered about 1800 B.C. by the Hyksos, a crude Asian people. Much of the information about this period was suspect because it came from a schoolboy's exercise tablet. Egyptologists debated whether the schoolboy's tale was a partial copy of a grownup text (like copying the Gettysburg Address) or whether it was a patriotic composition out of the boy's own head...
...more than $30 million. He flies to plush ski resorts in his blue-grey Aero Commander, has an autograph collection valued at more than $50,000, and lives in a 126-year-old, $300,000 mansion. But to the Federal Communications Commission, Ted Lamb's capitalistic coloration is suspect. For ten weeks it has been investigating charges that Lamb committed perjury when he stated, on his 1948 application for a license to operate station WICU-TV in Erie, that he never was a Communist Party member. In this, the seventh investigation of Lamb since 1948, the FCC presented some...
Much controversy is expected at the meeting tonight and a final vote may not be taken. The strongest opposition will come from garage and parking lot owners. Protests have also been filed by residents who suspect that overnight parking will be a menace to public safety, especially in case of fire...