New Play in Manhattan, May 26, 1947

Portrait In Black (by Ivan Goff & Ben Roberts; produced by David Lowe & Edgar F. Luckenbach) quickly lets the audience know that the San Francisco shipping magnate, Matt Talbot, didn't die the natural death people supposed he did: he was done in by his wife and her lover (Claire Luce* and Donald Cook). Then it quickly lets the murderers know, by means of a taunting anonymous letter, that they aren't quite getting away with it: someone is hep to their deed.

In their agitation, the guilty lovers decide it is the dead man's lawyer (Sidney Blackmer), and waste...

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