Word: una
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FEAR STALKS THE VILLAGE-Ethel Una White-Harper ($2). An exceptionally good thriller by the English author of The Wheel Spins (filmed as The Lady Vanishes). A plague of vitriolic and well-informed anonymous notes to supposedly impeccable village worthies changes a bucolic paradise into a midden of fear, suspicion and death. Investigator Ignatius Brown follows a slim clue to a startling conclusion...
Road to Zanzibar (Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel; TIME, April...
...Fearless Frazier, a harassed stooge who has to be shot from a cannon or wrestle an octopus, wants to get home to Birch Falls, Iowa. Crosby always interrupts the plan with a new enterprise. Before it is over, they take a safari through the jungle with Dorothy Lamour and Una Merkel, almost get eaten by cannibals...
...show (Thursdays 9:30 to 10 p.m. E.S.T., NBC-Red) is a sort of historical tour de farce, with incidents of the dead past reconstructed to include Vallée, ex-Prize Fighter Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom and guest players. Last week, for the Ides of March, Rudy was Caesar, Una Merkel Calpurnia, and Maxie one Slapsimus Maximus, a Caesarian stooge. In Rudy's Rome the WPA built the Appian Way, and Caesar avoided assassination by putting the Ides of March off till the vacated Thanksgiving date. Not Grade A to date, the show this week offers Pocahontas and Captain...