Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seventh heaven. I went every night to his house. Then he dropped me." With the Errol Flynn case scarcely disposed of, a pretty red-haired Hollywood drama student named Joan Berry was speaking of apple-cheeked little Charles Spencer Chaplin. The mother of pregnant Miss Berry filed a paternity suit against the 54-year-old comedian, asked $10,000 for prenatal care, $5,000 court costs, $2,500 a month for the support of the child. Pending a court hearing, Chaplin declared: "I am not responsible for Miss Berry's condition." He charged incidentally that she had demanded...
Dwindling manpower, machinery and gasoline may force many a U.S. golf club to close its links before summer ends. One middle-aged addict who wants to prevent this is Walter Prichard Eaton, Yale Drama Associate Professor, who has roamed U.S. fairways for nearly 50 years. In this month's Atlantic Monthly Professor Eaton hazarded a cure: ". . . All we have to do is buy a flock of sheep. They know that already in England...
Bataan's scenery is "realistic" down to the last carload of tropical foliage-and its drama is constantly loud and overemphatic. But there are a few stretches when the military situation calls for silence, the noisy sound track quiets down and, for a moment, incredibly enough, Hollywood's war takes on the tense, classic values of understatement...
...European staff in 1924, O'Flaherty will leave for the Southwest Pacific to report World War II, replacing the News's George Weller, Pulitzer Prizewinner, who is ill. New News managing editor: Lloyd Downs Lewis, 52, a jack-of-many-newspaper-trades (book reviewer, historian, drama critic, author, sports editor) whom the late Raconteur Alexander Woollcott once called "the best newspaperman in the United States...
...drama has, as its main excuse, the housing shortage in the nation's capital. Jean Arthur manages to look very prettily flustered as the patriotic tenant who rents half her apartment to one Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn). Dingle's inordinately long nose perceives that his landlady is far from satisfied with her fiance, Charles J. Pender-gast (Bruce Bennett), an effectively sickly-looking Washington bureaucrat. So Dingle sub-lets his half of the apartment to a "fine, clean-cut, high-living young man," Joe Carter (Joel McCrea). By the Hollywood law of mutual gravitation, the two are drawn together...