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THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1941. 6 Peggy Conklin Finds Talk of New England Disturbs Miss Davis She Yearns Constantly for Her New Hampshire Farm and the Day She'll Retire to It and Raise Butter-; Acting A Lot Of Fun Dynamic Young Star Who Started Her Career on Broadway as a Chorus Girl and Was Given Her First Big Part in a Play That Failed Abruptly Has Come a Long Way Up the Ladder Is Soon to Appear in 'Mr. and Mrs. North' nuts, and When the Topic Is Brought Up It Frets Her and Spoils Her ftoie uay "Oh. it may wash away years be Hollywood: It was half past the noon hour and the three of us who BY JEAN DALRYMPLE.

New York: "I'm afraid I'm a very fore that," said Bette. "Have vou tried the dooI? rushed thrown tne aoor me Green Room Restaurant at Warner Brothers found all the tables oc "Of course I've tried it. I'm In it every day when the sun shines aad Im not working." cupied. "Is it warmed water? A Cold-Water Child un-glamorous Peggy Conklin said, crinkling her eyes and wrinkling her nose, in the way she has when she smiles. "I live such a simple, normal, happy life.

I'm married and I love my husband. I'm a mother and I adore my child. I'm an actress and I'm crazy about the theater. All my life is like that. At one taoie, meant im ium.

ladv sat alone. It was Miss Bette Duvi She was studying her script. the sketches. From then on I Just had to be an actress." In Two Two-Week And from then on she was. Her Broadway debut was in a traditional -part for beginners; a maid in "His Majesty's Car," with Miriam Hopkins.

The play lasted two weeks. Soon she had another two-week run, tn "Purity," with Florence Reed. "You had more of a chance in those days of sort of stepping up the ladder, if you showed some talent, starting with tiny parts and nninir ah Ya on4 haHav Mine Bette nut down her fork deliber Not any too avidly, It seemed, be-1 ately. "Nothing makes me so mad." cause sne mowed cracsers uuc she declared. "Dion i ten you i the TpaA a cold-water child? Why would any- Sometimes I think it too periect km EU thi imr one want a pool in this part of the and the babble of voices, the smell.

that I have too much." cf good food and tne occasional of them are finsh nf a. nhotocranher's liEht made The dark-haired, darK-eyea. dynamic Miss Conklin, who looks like a girl in her teens despite her 11 "Well, mine isn't" snapped Bette "I waited for years to get a house ani a iwil nf mu ntvn linrt t.hpn Vftll years in the theater, was curled uPBut nowa(jays they pop youngsters on an old sofa on the bare stage of mto big parts on Broadway and the Belasco Theater, between either a wow or Ret a bi, ask me if the pool is heated. How I 1 1 Hinni MIIIH Uinillllillll'IJ 111 mSuMm' mmmmummmm. mmmu I ill.

Tia limitiM.m-. V' 'cs I (ll could you?" We at in silence for a moment Hollywood contract, or they're for hearsals of a new comedy, "Mr. and Mrs. North." which will open there Jan. 14, after a week in Washing Then Bette chirped brightly, "You gotten overnignt.

Peggy's first big part came In a the place seem even more invitingly full of excitement than it really Miss Davis looked up and saw us standing there, looking hungry perhaps, and certainly ill at ease. She knew us all and of course we all knew her. "Come sit here," she We sat. "I'm too hungry to study lines," she added, closing the script. Doesn't Like Honolulu.

While we ordered our lunch Bette expressed herself pointedly about ton. Peggy will be "Mrs. iNortn," wno is no stranger to those who have read the stories and books about play called "Hilda Cassidy," but It closed during its out-of-town try-out and never reached New York. "Old Man Murphy," her next rung must come over before I take the tree down. You see I got it from my own farm in New Hampshire.

Shipped all the way here and arrived just 1n time for Christmas Eve. The hollv. too. And the turkeys we had on the table. Were they de on the ladder, did open on Broadway, and for the first she had the pleasure of reading good press this slightly wacky young coupie which Frances and Richard Lock-ridge have been turning out since 1931.

The play has a nuirder-mys-tery in it, and it probably will be no surprise to her followers to find that "Mrs. North," with her maiden-inglv illogical logic, solves it. the Hollywood habit of adding new notices. licious! Goodness, what time is it? When did we start this lunch?" The hour was up and other members of the cast and crew of Bette's picture had left the Green Room I'd best be scooting," she said, ris "It had never been too awful really I enjoyed every minute of those early days but after that it was delightful. One thine came scenes to a script alter a picture has started.

She despises it. We asked about her plans after The Great Lie," which she is just tow finishing. "It fun lor me," reggy went on, doine this kind of a part. Most of right on top of another, and when ing. At the door she paused and looked the girls I've played before have been serious, even in the comedies." "I'm just getting acquainted with o.ti.

-I'll men menacingly, uummjui The staee was beginning to show Ii iivri nuuac, aaiu wine. i fj- rnhohiv tv rioht. hpr and -ninviever mention New England to me wvv -A at lunch again. It's broken up my It." signs of life now. Some of the actors were coming back from luncheon.

Alfred de Liagre, tne proaucer-director, and Owen Davis, who wrote the nlav. arrived arm in arm with Alhert Hackett. who plays "Mr. North," the comparatively shy and methodical husband. This is first, nart since he interrupted his acting career to go to Hollywood whole afternoon.

Good-bye. (Released by NANA, Inc.) W. C. Fields Will" Star for Universal In 'The Great Man' Jubilant over the reception of his; latest box office triumph, 'The Bank Dick." W. C.

Fields has signed to do another special comedy, which will be entitled, "The Great Man." The new offering will be Fields' fourth in a row for Universal, which was given first call on the comedian's services, while several other major companies were making offers. Gloria Jean, Universale 12-years-old sineimr star, and Butch and as a writer, alter selling ms successful play. "Up Pops the Devil," in which he also appeared, for a picture. He's resDonsible for the screen 'Mademoiselle' opened and I had really lovely notices, you can't imagine what excitement there was: Movie tests and contracts, script to read, interviews, telegrams, all the fixings. vBut I didn't go to Hollywood then.

I did "The Pursuit' of Happiness' next and it was only after I had been in it all during its long run on Broadway and in London my first trip abroad that I went to the Coast to make 'The President and some other films. Since then I've been traveling back and forth. Worked With Howard. I did 'The Petrified with Leslie Howard, in New York, and then dashed back to Hollywood for more pictures. I came East again for 'Yes, My Darling which de Liagre also produced and directed, and was lured out of that toward the end of its run by more Hollywood offers." During the run of "Yes, My Darling Daughter," she met a young stock broker named James Thompson one afternoon at a party, and six weeks later they were married.

"And that's when my life really began," Peggy beamed. plavs for the "Thin Man" series, among many other hits. Contagiously Happy Person, "And not go sailing away to Hawaii?" asked one of our companions. "You know," said Bette, buttering a piece of rye toast, "I don't like Honolulu too well. I don't like any warm climate as well as I like New England.

I'm a cold-water child, you know." She straightened up suddenly. "Now I've done it. Why did I say that? I've been trying to keep New England out of my mind all week. Why did we bring the subject up anvhow?" "We were talking about Hawaii," a companion explained, lamely Longs for Her Farm, "I can't get back to my farmhouse lor any length of time until next October." said Bette unable to turn the conversation. "That's terrible.

I just don't want to think about it. "There isn't any lawn," continued Hollywood's first lady, "just trees! and wild flowers and grass. And! nuts!" she added suddenly. "Butterj nuts! Twenty years from now when! I'm forgotten by Hollywood, youU probably find me selling butternut along one of the roads near my house. Ill tie them up individually with pink ribbons.

I can just hear "No hurry about me," Peggy said, "I'm not in the scene they'll do first. I'm in almost all the others, though! Such fun!" She smiled hap-pilv. In fact, she is a thoroughly and contagiously happy person. "No one knows why I wanted to Buddy, Juvenile rapscallions, will have important featured roles in "The Great Man," and other blg-name performers will be lined up before the start of production early next soring. be an actress," she said suddenly, "and I have never been able to Edward F.

Cline, who directed the current Fields hit. and its predeces figure it out myself, either. I had never seen a play or a movie, even, when I made up my mind about it, at a very early age. No one in my sor, "My Little Chickadee," will Then when Antonia, her daughter, family cared about the theater arrived, two vears aeo. her hanni- again pilot the bulbous-nosed comedian in "The Great Man." i The plot, and other subject mat particularly.

I woke up one morn- ness Was complete. "I devoted my-ing and knew I had to be an sey to Tony pretty thoroughly in ter of the scriDt. will not be divuleed the beginning." she went on, gayly, until later, albeit It was revealed that the picture will have a South American background. me. 'Bette Daviss pretty pink butternutshome "What a picture." "Yes.

isn't it?" agreed Bette. her eyes shining. "At least I can't starve as long as I have butternuts." "No cranberries?" "Young man, my house Is in New England, not New Jersey." "but now I think it would be foolish not to work, don't you? She's perfectly well taken care of by a maid and a nurse, when I can't be with her. Oh, there's my cue!" Peggy jumped up. "Yes," she said, "I meant that.

Sometimes I think it's all too perfect that I have too much." Outdoor Star Ranchless. Although he works almost exclusively in big outdoor pictures. John Wayne, star of "The Shepherd of the Hills," is one of Hollywood's few toD-line Dlavers who live in the we accepted tne rebuke, "what (Released by NANA.) actress. Ana i wsnwa no wme getting started, either. It was in winr ter, and I got a part in the school Christmas play immediately.

Then there were children's plays at the Women's Clubs and I was in all of those. Of course, as soon as I was old enough, and could coax my family Into it, I went over toScars-boro which is very near by home town of Dobbs Ferry, New York and joined the Beechwood Players there. "That was heaven, of course. They were a semi-amateur organization, but I had wonderful training. I was with them off and on for about two years, playing all sorts of parts, and enjoying myself and meeting fascinating 'people of the theater' who often came up from New York to see our will you do with your new house here i city.

He's never owned a ranch and in the river bottoms when you re-isavs he gets enough of them in hi tire to your farm in New England?" pictures. fVH Vfon Winfr tnav Ha rale inir men-tr NH most nthpr nlarws hut. it's June in Januarv in California. Above. Helen Parrish, shapely young Katie Makes player featured in "Six Lessons from Madame LaZonga," takes advantage of the weather man to bound along the briny beach.

Hartford stock company, when Among New York- Tlieateni such things were in vogue. Critics Munch Their Words Humorist Bob Benchley Is Puzzled, Can't See Why Public Laughs at Him Recruit from the Screen. By RALPH W. CAREY The Eileen, on the other hand, Is a brand new recruit from the screen, the verv hlond Ann Savers, and people are extremely agreeable to meet and what they offer in the way of entertainment is well worth watching and listening to. In freshness, and cleverness and variety their revue ranks with those seen here in the past two seasons under the jingly titles of "One for the Money" and "Two for the Show," though without quite equalling the artistically decorative effects achieved by the two latter.

"Finally, feeling confident ana mhn nn nnirfc nnt.ire ran ffivp vnil' Becomes Year's Most Bril I went to the city to try the most laughable description youea8er. After a truly desperate struggle Ibered chiefly for her Ann Rutledge largely atones by decorativeness for and thanks to some four or five 'in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." And! what she lacks in stage experience, out of seven new plays that their -Kent Smith as the young man in the Morris Carnovsky has the part of Broadwav. Well, that was very dif the landlord, a Greek would-be art' liant 'Comeback' by Virtue of 'The Philadelphia Story' producers naa evidently been re-case contributes a completely sat-servlng for the holiday trade, theiisfying portrayal. 1st, and, though humorous in the old year was finally enabled to go main, at one point overplays out- 'My Sister Hollywood (AP.) Humorous Robert Benchley, who once wrote "My Seven Years in a Quandary," says he isn't out of it yet. ''For the life of me, I don't understand what the public sees that's funny about me," remarked the actor-critic, whose comical writings and pictures have been snapping the public out of the mental dumps for 25 years.

"I don't know how I ever happened to get into pictures and it's out in a Diaze 01 comparative glony. 'Old Acquaintance'. The first in order was John van As for variety, the program of the Alliance contains no fewer than 30 items, not one of which is left out. Obviously they could not all be of equal merit, but there are not over two or three that we personally vHumui, w.c arp "mts" 3Ut, m0Sl 0 provoking of these new plays Is the (them are excellently done Mr. rA one conmrtrt hv Fiplri unrt itvamman oroDaoiy maae sure 01 Drutens By ROBBIN COONS.

AP. Feature Service Writer. Hollywood. The old preview year and verv Chodorov from the stories those iX. Gordon diverting ever heard oi what to do to sleep properly or how to stuff a duck, says he sometimes thinks he ought to go back to being a critic.

"But if I do that." he says I'm afraid the public would say I should have stuck to acting and if I stick to acting, I'm afraid the public will wonder why in the world I didn't stick to being a critic. So-o-o, the actor-humorist with the perpetual laugh is still in a quandary. "I don't particularly like being In pictures," said "I sometimes think they are a poor medium. "You can give yourself a lot more laughs by tickling yourself in the ribs than you can by being in picturesand it's a whale of a lot would willingly dispense with. The majority are skit and sketches of went out in a rather nice blaze of ferent.

It's almost impossible for a newcomer to get a job in the theater today, but even then it was hard enough. I didn't know how to get started, but I was so anxious to work at once that I immediately began answering chorus calls. My grandfather was horrified at the idea, but I couldn't help it. I just had to get into the theater. And finally I did in the fourth row of the chorus in "Treasure Girl," with Gertrude Lawrence! How I stayed there, I.

never know, because I had no training as a dancer, but I 'faked' it somehow. Next. I went into the first-'Little again as a chorus girl, and I might be that still if Romney Brent hadn't given me four lines to speak in one of glory, leaving three new pictures one sort or another, many others in even a bigger mystery to me why I recounting the miraculously McKenney used to write for wiuiam rost, it ine ai ton lr.g friendship ol two lady 'novelist The New Yorker about her own -J as unlike as two women could con- her sister's startling Eda Helneman, to say nothing veniently be. the one played bv Jane'ens. later assembled in book form, J1 ptT Cowl, the other by Peggv Wood annd now, In part, adapted for tne cream, no doubt, of the standing high above the month's stv in them.

fact. And there are individual stunts output: "The Philadelphia "Kitty Foyle" and "Flight From Des Brazilian navy. tiny." example or team work on the part of tneater as "My sister Eileen." two actresses of prominence such! In this current version the two solo dance numbers, vocal features, even a comic propagandist item, and nearly all the members of the cast play many parts. But probably not a single one of their names "Every time a visitor walks away from the sound stage where I am working. I can just feel that he's saying to himself: 'Well, I certainly don't see anything funny about that guy." For all-around worth and enter 'Meet the People.

Then a surprise with a year-old history. On Christmas, 1939, it as we cannot recall having seen, ex- girls. Ruth and Eileen, come to New tainment value as brilliant comedy. York from Ohio to make their for would mean an.vthine to our readers. I seems, a group of twenty-odd young vpt in some classic revival, since Grace Oeorge and Laura Hope Crews appeared together a good many vears tunes, the former by writing (as in Bencmey, wno nas appeared in let's talk about "The Philadelphia Story." It's the same story with which Katharine Hepburn, several years numerous comedy film shorts and more fun." as yet.

though they are succeeding admirable in avowed purpose real life), the latter on the stage. i people of varied talents who had An unscrupulous landlord hoodwinks en waiting around in Hollywood so in ine Merry wives of doth oi proving conclusively that a pro- Annnd fPUW i renting an entirely unde- Anderson virtually ago listed by exhibitors as "doxoi-fice poison," made her first hit on co-starred in sirable "apartment" below street level in "Th VtllnM" inri all th ine urn aigious amount or talent once lav concealed beneath a Hollywood bushel. the New York stage, as it ior a cnance to snow what thev could do, wearied of waiting and took matters into their own hands, formed themselves into the. Hollywood Theater Alliance, and produced a musical revue of their own manu should make those same exhibitors wish they hadn't said It. The other end-of-the-vear items.

In Mr. van Druten's play Miss amazing, embarrassing, discouraging Cowl has the role of Katherine I and bewildering things that happen Markham who, approaching, shall i to them there combine to make a we say, middle age. has nrodured hiehlv amusinif fnrr-rnmpHv. Miss HeDburn nlavs the daughter which we have not yet had an opportunity to inspect, include the facture, which they called "Meet of a wealthy Philadelphia Main Line family. She's a "case.

Opinionated, anrd nursing" impossibly high ideals exactly five good, thoughtful, sub-! The fact that the nlere sfj.iredne PeoP'e." Occasional word of it stantial books t-nt ine laci. mat tne piece was cleverness came East, then a report i "aa oy ueoree s. Kaufman doubtless Wn oy ivauiman tint never married I and 2 (account for many of the more a.na is currently ium nf ctor. hut. for herself and all others, sne nas divorced an exceedingly human Cary Grant and is about to marry a man- 111 somebody has also equipped it with an extraordinary number of clever musical "Pal Joey," based upon John O'Hara's series of vernacular letters, also from the New Korker, ostensibly written by a guttersnipe night club musician to a long-suffering friend: "The Flying Gerar-dos." a something less than expert comedy about the private and love life of a family of trapeze performers by Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Robinson, with Florence of-the-people, a social climber played of a forthcoming tour by the original company while a second was established to hold the fort at headquarters.

And at length, via Chicago, the Hollywood Theater Alliance and "Meet the People" arrived in New York on Christmas night, 1940. Agreeable People. Both are more than welcome. The Joying an "affair" with a young man! considerably her junior. Her home, Incidentally, is on the more aristo- of New York' Greenwich Village Her life-long friend.

Mrs. Mildred Watson Drake, on the ana witty lines, and few actresses are as adept at putting over the by Jonn Howara. Typical Barry Tlay.N ReDorter James Stewart and point oi a xunny speech as Shirley other hand, turns out trashy best' Plavs Ruth- and wh0' sellers by the dozen and has achieved I ldfntallv' started her career in Photographer Ruth Hussey are assigned by "Spy Magazine" to get tteea as the matriarch; and a serious thoughtful, moving and passionately sincere drama by Elmer Rice on woria conditions of today, entitled "Flight to the West," with its scene laid in a trans-Atlantic clipper en route for New York. But more of at least some of these anon. Broadway Casts Pauline Lord In amuence oy virtue of them.

She happens to be a divorcee and lives outside of the city. Her charming daughter Deirdre, however, is much happier when staying in New York with Miss Markham. Though Mrs. Drake is bv far the better equipped with worldly goods Miss Markham gets more joy and satisfaction out of life, and despite their long friendship, it is Mrs Drake's nature to be jealous, even envious, of Miss Markham. For this reason, and because she cannot stand seeing her daughter so much more at home with her lriend, she takes a Park Avenue apartment to keep an eve on Deir- move- however, proves anything but a success, in the story or the wedding, urasrung the home as pretended friends of Hepburn's absent brother, and abetted bv Grant, who also shows up, the intruders involve the heroine In such a maze of humanizing complications that eventually she awakens to her own shortcomings, sends Howard packing and recaptures Grant.

All this is embellished by the light and witty dialogue which distinguishes Philip Barry plays. George Cukor, who excels in movie depictions of "society" backgrounds and characters, directs the proceedings handily for a generally fast-moving, well-developed production. The Glory Shared. Miss Hepburn, though she scintillates as never before, is by no 1 -k Murder Mystery Cary Grant (left). Katharine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart are a happy threesome in the widely heralded smash hit, "The Philadelphia Story." Actress Even Listens Elo Composers Famous course of her brief tenancy she all but wrecks not only her means the whole acting show.

For with Miss Markham but Delrdres quently in 'Eight o'clock Tuesday' By MARK BARRON. New York (AP.) Broadwav. at Godden, has a nice home and marries his pretty, blonde secretary. She has complications in that she is really in love with a younger man who lives next door and also that her wastrel young brother is constantly tormenting her for money which she cannot get from her em- njpinr5s, Doin, nowever, beine saved by Miss Markham nt. th.

ense of her own. For her youthful lover, whose offer of mnn-inir. ilt' the moment, is overwhelmed bv feminine stars with Helen Haves plover-husband. In face of all this, Ivan Godden How the murder is solved and who did it is a state secret, but what can be revealed. Is that Beatrice (Miss Lordt is not frustrated entirely about her one romance.

For when she loses hrr sweetheart a second time he whispers to her: "You and me together." And she, this old maid with a thwarted romance, whispers back with the heartfelt warmth of a young Juliet, "You and me together, that's something for me to have all my life." 53 Army Officers In Motion Picture It was Shakespeare or surely a sage of equal note who said, "Give me the man who writes the people's songs, and you can have the lawmakers." But whatever the source, if there is wisdom in those words, Don Raye and Hughie Prince, two young fellows with roguish grins and lots of good looks, are fast becoming very Influential gentlemen indeed In the delightfully humorous in "Twelfth Night," Jane Cowl and Peggy Wood Is an arrogant would-be-Hitler who had politely declined, mainly on the score of the disparity in their ages but who could have won her with one more asking, suddenly finds himself attracted to Deirdre and loved by her in return. There is nothing of the cad about him, how-ever, and he goes to Katherine with the truth in manly fashion. And she accepts the situation in onnn There's Grant, a background roie which he nevertheless makes forceful, and Stewart In one of his honest Bll-Amerlcan country boy roles, and Ruth Husscv, one of the season's most promising discoveries. John Halllday, Mary Nash, Virginia Weidler. Roland Young and others ronud out a typical Cukor cast, help to make "The Philadelphia Story' the interesting, sparkling, really funny comedy It is.

Miss Hepburn, who left Hollywood one of Its "failures," thus becomes the year's most brilliant "comeback." Controlling the play and selling it to the films, with herself included in the bargain, she stands to coin a mint of money as well as a wealth deserves all the misfortunes he gets. "His strength Is in creating fear," his devoted sister said about him. "And that is his only strength." It noing nobly with the comic "Old Acquaintance" and Ethel Barry-more a resounding hit In "The Corn Is Green." This week there arrived another, Miss Pauline Lord. In this new play, a murder mystery called "Eight O'clock Tuesday," Miss Lord establishes again an achievement fnr u'hlrh tnop atars i hi old acquaintance 1 not nation's affairs. And the sister (Miss Lord) has much reason to feel animosltv towards him as he had forcibly broken up the one romance, and it was a serious romance, she had ever A fWUfli Every one or the 53 commissionca "boogie An Alluring Role.

jand non-commissioned officers P-WOogie" what it Is today, the newest had in her life Miss Cowl has rarely. aDoeared to are made. For she nlavs a com-1 With this Introduction, in "Buck Privates," the. rage in rhythm of new prestige from this venture and paratively minor role, a part which drama by Robert Wallesten and Mig- comedy starring Abbott and Costcllol Boogie woogie was only heard at has a few good speaking scenes but non O. Eberhart solves itself be-! the Andrews sisters, has hadjhousewarminRs way down in the which also has several long scenes, fore the eyes of the audience by the; l.ne "arc -nmnarJdpep, deep South before Raye and where Miss Lord dors nothing but use of what is known In the movies actual mllltery expetience compnr prmre came Bon8 with "Rhum-llsten.

but. Mis Lord Is an actress as "flash barks." In other words the ble to his rank, except the enlnnp'i boogie." Beat Me, DRridy. Eight, to who listens with the eloquence of things that have already happened In command, Selmer Jackson, who the Bar." "Scrub Me, Momma. With more charming advantage or been blessed with a more alluring role, which she handles with infinite grace, Nor has Miss Wood often, if ever, given a more completely rounded characterization than she is now doing for the shallow, vain, Jesl-oua tnd suspicious Mildred Drake. others sure to iouow.

Speech. A bronze plaque has been presented to Rosalind Russell by the National Teachers Association in appreciation of her work for "better speech" In such films as "The Women." "The Citadel," "Night Must Fall" and "Cralg't Wife." OIOWKOW8IC1 conaucting. "Eight OClock Tuesday" Is the replay themselves, with the corpse L1llv, th 't hi. finnff more' a Boogie Beat" and a score of other coming to life and saying whstlfl" eontA offl- hit. Now it's a national Institution, happened to him and with the wit- cert of the.

Armv snd Navy in Ray and Prince are currently in th. -m CPrB "I tne Army "Ha. Jn4 th. imn fnr I Perhaps it doesn't apply at all to their private lives, hi if. Lun Vele in part or Pftrdr is sdmlrably nd attractively taken bv Adele story of the murder of fairly seems ni i to navt her fiance Oulnn "Bl Boy" Williams rommetelv nirnlevrl waftn m.n v.n i th.

loom. wo m'imjviS SbV iiT-wco lunula vur uuLii lAiobcmu oi nirtiira nvr naa aervea aay nuuwwu uuwi wlc what they told the police, IreSSSS Kn lAndrewa Sisters la "Buck Privates.".

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