"I prefer being murdered to murdering," said Flora Robson, artful and fiendish poisoner in "Ladies in Retirement," as she balanced a cup of tea and chatted causally in the Lowell House Common Room ...

Story has color, romance, adventure, and not a little s.a. Ingrid Bergman is the beautiful albeit calculating Creole, and Gary Cooper is very effective in the plausible role of a droll, gamblin' Texan ...