Word: valcour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MURDER MASKS MIAMI-Rufus King-Crime Club ($2). Lieutenant Valcour gets a killer who uses a murderous hypo on two unpopular women-an ultra-respectable old lady and a blackmailing young golddigger. Swift, breezy, tongue-in-cheek tale...
Wrote Detective Storyteller King (The Lesser Antilles Case, Valcour Meets Murder) before the premiere: "Murder in the family circle never pays, whereas murder in a manuscript does. That is to say, every now & then." There being no other comparable melodrama currently playing on Broadway, this may be one of those profitable times for Mr. King...
...LESSER ANTILLES CASE-Rufus King-Crime Club ($2). Nine castaways, at sea in an open boat, believe two of their number have been murdered. Assigned to the case, Lieutenant Valcour meets another death, must go to the wreck to pursue his investigation, becomes both judge and executioner...
James Rennie (Alien Corn) comes on the stage, a picture of self-confidence, as Inspector Ellery, recognizable as Author King's capable, dinner-coated stock character Lieut. Valcour. Inspector Ellery & staff turn the theatre upside down, invade the musicians' room, wardrobe room, property room, and even, amid terrified squeals, the backstage quarters of the naked ladies of the ensemble. They question everyone: unholy Siebenkase (Bela Lugosi of Dracula); Madame Tanqueray, the wren-like wardrobe mistress; bug-eyed Billy Slade, impersonated by Ben Lackland. As usual, Mr. Lackland is playing the part of a rich young man with...
...VALCOUR MEETS MURDER?Rufus King ?Crime Club ($2). Eight hard-boiled characters, some virtuous, remain unreal through storm, fire, double death and transportation of stolen gems about the Canadian border; and Valcour remains Lieutenant Valcour...