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Show further complicates I.add's efforts. ef-forts. Ha Silva. ;nxlus to gi-t rid of I.r.dil. has him kidnapped by a squad of his henchmen, and. in traditional Lad! manner. Alan battles them and the raw in bruising, thrilling encounters which lead to the hair-raising climax cli-max few will be able to predict. emotionally erratic because of a war wound, is also suspected by j the police. His trail leads to da Silva, who, it develops, is Miss ( Lake's estranged husband, which Ladd, Lake In Action Hit Now at Center Paramount's sock-'em, shock-'em shock-'em Raymond Chandler murder-mystfiry, murder-mystfiry, "The Blue Dahlia," which opens today at the Centre theater, is an expertly handled, smoothly suspenseful melodrama melo-drama which not only packs a w'allop, but delivers it in a rapid-fire tempo of mounting excitement. excite-ment. This thriller-chiller stars Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and William Bendix in roles which Chandler, author of numerous best-seller mysteries, wrote expressly ex-pressly to fit their personalities. "The Blue Dahlia" is a perfect vehicle for the Ladd with the blazing guns and smashing fists. As a returning war veteran, he comes home with two pals, William Wil-liam Bendix and Hugh Beaumont, Beau-mont, to find his drunken wife entertaining Howard da Silva, owner of the "Blue Dahlia" night club. Ladd starts socking immediately, imme-diately, and when, in her anger, his wife reveals that the death of heir son was due to her negligence, neg-ligence, Ladd walks out. He meets and falls for Veronica Veron-ica Lake, who, it appears, is having hav-ing marital difficulties of her own. When he hears the radio announcement of his wdfe's murder, mur-der, naming him as the principal suspect, he eludes the police and sets off in pursuit of the killer. Ladd is more determined than ever when he learns that Bendix, |