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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject is ghosts; the treatment is neither scary nor funny--merely heavy-handed. James Mason, as a retired businessman, and his wife, Barbara Mullen, bring their 40 years experience in the drapery business to battle with a frustrated young ghost who haunts their newly-bought country house. Local gossip whispers that an attractive girl was smothered to death there 40 years before by some avaricious caretakers who wanted her inheritance. Mason and Mullen are unimpressed until she begins to whistle in the speaking tubes and bother the help...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

There are a few scenes that come close to success--the servants gossipping in the kitchen, town characters at the pub. Among the characters, James Mason is kindly and venerable, Barbara Mullen patient and faithful, and Margaret Lockwood sufficiently distracted for her part. The whole cast acts far above the lines...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...digging out the important little facts that make Wellesley the great college it is ... a gold star. BARBARA SCOTT CRAWFORD Erie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Hockey: "R's"--Sallie Hope Brown '50 and Nina Emerson '50; numerals--Barbara Beatley '50, Ellen Guild '52, Hope Ingersoll '50, Diane Jones '52, Jean McCormick '51, Dorothy Silberman '52, and Sally Vincent '52; honorable mention--Mary Brandt '51, Dorothy Caiger '52, Phebe Crampton '52, Ellen Gifford '52, Lucy Heiman '52, Penny Hughes '51, Elizabeth Tucker '52, Cynthia Williams '51, and Anne Worthington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Awards Athletes | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

Softball: "R's"--Barbara Beatley '50, Mary Brandt '51, Abigail Caplan '50, Nina Emerson '50, Ellen Guild '52, Jo'ann Jehl '50, Margaret Mealy '52, Elizabeth Tucker '52 and Diane Wertz '51; numerals--Emily Ingraham '51 and Nancy Westover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Awards Athletes | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

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