Word: thief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Craig Rice (Georgiana Randolph Craig), 49, bestselling authoress of about 25 whodunits (Having Wonderful Crime, To Catch a Thief, Trial by Fury) and a handful of screen plays (Home Sweet Homicide, Underworld Story), whose hard-drinking, hard-loving, hard-dying heroes reflected their creator's liquid-decked (she was committed to California's Camarillo State Hospital in 1949 for chronic alcoholism), love-torn (five times married) and death-daring (she twice threatened suicide) Bohemian existence; of cause under investigation; in Los Angeles...
Headquarters Call. In San Francisco, three policeman spotted a stolen automobile, gingerly forced its driver-thief to the curb, returned the car unmarked to Police Commissioner Paul A. Bissinger...
Investigation. In New Philadelphia, Ohio, Police Chief Louis J. Clark, visiting a gas station that had just been robbed, dropped a piece of paper, bent down, spotted the thief under the desk...
Anouilh has conceived of his main characters in pairs, which balance off against each other in perfect classical symmetry. There is the rich, middle-aged Lady Hurf and the poor, middle-aged master thief Peterbono, each constantly trying to outwit the other. There are the two young nieces and the two young apprentice thieves; the gay niece pursues the sad thief and is repulsed, while the gay thief pursues the sad niece and is repulsed. Elderly Lord Edgard wants peace and quiet; the youthful musician thrives on sound and activity. There are Dupont-Dufort pere and fils, who always dress...
Melville Cooper has a wonderfully sheepish face for the role of the chief thief, and is hilarious in his series of outrageous disguises. The roles of his proteges, the ardent Hector and the morose Gustave, are well entrusted to Lawrence Spector and John Reese. Guy Sorel makes the most of his mainly silent role as the hen-pecked Lord Edgard. David Bauer is properly reserved as the older Dupont-Dufort; and the endomorphic slob the latter sired is highly amusing in the hands of Tom Bosley...