... a la CARTE By J LAN &OTT Crime and Research THE AMAZING DR. CLITTERHOUSE is aptly named. When an enterprising doctor goes a-burgling he is certain to have some remarkable reason. A general physician capable of successful crime on the grand scale would ...

... exposi of syndicated American crime as dull and disappointing, a critic had possibly been hunting vainly through its pages for Granny Martha Honeybun, the dear shy little old lady who generally controls big-scale crime. Get those rats, says the sweet ...

... Okay, Joe. Change IN behalf of a chap bored with the standard murder-mob/ of the Whodunnit and howling for some new basic crime we beg to suggest to the racket a species of skulduggery as yet unexploited, so far as we know. The story might open thus As ...

... would come under the heading of Comedy-Thrillers in any potted summary of What's On in the West End. Only, plays about crime need to be particularly lurid in wartime, with so much German competition from the theatres of war. Failing that, they must ...

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... toothbrush, and the sweet old lady in the Dulwich boarding-house who directs European crime. Obviously, any real surprises will be sprung independently of the 25,000 crime- novelists, who (as one of them confessed to us last week) are now exhausted and drying ...

... Beefeaters on alternate Tuesdays, of the Beating of the Bounds. The Friday morning wage grab is modern in spirit: but the crime is given colour as a spectacle, by the use of a gilt coach and horses to ram the wage van, with bandit outriders in eighteenth ...

... are determined that our trade policy towards Germany in the future will visit upon that nation some lasting penalty for her crimes against civilisation. We expect, however, that the conference, although dis tinguished by a robust spirit of retaliation, ...

... from a hastily arranged battle in which the weapons had been forgotten, but in the case of football at least it was also a crime. Edward II, Edward III, Richard II and others all enacted laws against it, and in fact treated the game almost as harshly as ...

... lovely perfumed bath oils which keep the skin smooth and soft. For after bath-use, Guerlain make a special body cream called Crime Hydratante. This goes on easily and completely disappears, leaving the skin with a satiny finish to off-set an evening dress ...

... well played by Pierre Cressoy, who instals her, in the unsentimental idiom of this film, as his mistress. The French divide crime films into white and black, depending on their intention. Despite the X Certificate, which will no doubt attract dubious publicity ...

... joined them for better or worse, his wife will help in shielding him, even by permitting a half-witted youth to hang for the crime. Gabriel stroking with sadistic affection his wife's shrinking neck Gabriel trying to have her declared insane when God obliges ...