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Phillips will not be alone in its oil hunt; it will team up with Oklahoma City's Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, headed by Oklahoma's Senator Robert S. Kerr. The two firms have gone 50-50 on exploring for oil from Montana to Louisiana for the past 15 years, started working together shortly before Adams became Phillips' president. The son of a railroad man Adams left the University of Kansas in 1920, just short of graduation, to join Phillips as a warehouse clerk. By 1932 he was assistant to President Frank Phillips. At 35, Adams was named...
...production is not quite all of a piece. Thirteen-year-old Iris Mann (The Innocents) plays the brat with remarkable skill, and more convincingly than brilliantly stagy Florence McGee, a grownup, did in 1934. And, as in 1934, Katherine Emmet is impressive as the grandmother. As the schoolmistresses, however, Kim Hunter and-despite very good moments-Patricia Neal display a certain lack of shading in their roles and of full impact in certain of their scenes. But if such limitations stress how much the acting can mean to a play, the whole evening proves how much a good play...
Sheer Friendliness. Radio Writer-Producer Don (Fibber McGee & Molly) Quinn thinks that "this practice amounts to petty larceny. After all, for me to chisel a part of my sponsor's time to give a free plug to someone else in return for an electrical bicycle pump just plain isn't honest." But Quinn has been unable to get the Radio Writers' Guild or his advertising agency to share his indignation. And he concedes that policing the practice is nearly impossible: "Inevitably, a gag will occur that names a national product. You'd be silly...
...conventional situations. It was quite obvious that Maggy, flirting with the modern world, would end up renouncing the products of Westinghouse and General Electric for gadgets and religions more tried. There are some amusing scenes in the play, and a few of the performances are quite funny, but McGee's script crupts only in short bursts...
Somehow, I feel that McGee might have slipped his point across effectively with this same cast, if he had made his lines and situations a bit more subtle. A boarding house with a crew of eccentrics is a fine setting, but using television to represent the machine age and comic books printed matter is overloading the pack. Smashing an electric computer with a sledgehammer is certainly an effective way of stopping it; but it is much less wearing simply to disengage the plug from its socket...