Word: tolerating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sidney Toler, 74, veteran stage & screen actor, onetime leading man to Julia Marlowe, best known in recent years for his bland cinemacting of Chinese Detective Charlie Chan; of intestinal cancer; in Hollywood...
...from the stars, a host of minor characters make up for some of the film's chronic dreariness. Mrs. Noosbaum, "I'm tellink mine hosband . . ." is rivalled only by John Carradine, in a ghoulish carbon copy of Ephraim Tutt sniggering while hunched over an organ keyboard and by Sidney Toler, who doffs his perennial mustache but is still Charlie Chan...
...Opal Barbara, took more than her share of the bedclothes, sued her for divorce on grounds of cruel & inhuman treatment. In Indianapolis, a woman suing for divorce charged that her husband kept his gun collection and an 18-foot fishing boat in the living room. In Chicago, Mrs. Frances Toler, a model, won a divorce after complaining that she supported her husband but that he refused to do the housework...
Without the co-feature, Dead Men Tell, the show would have a hard time climbing out of the B ranking, but this latest Charlie Chan is different enough to be clever. Sidney Toler, Warner Olan's successor as China's Confucius-Sherlock Holmes combine manages to keep a boatload of psychopathic treasure hunters, a pirate ghost, and his number-two son well in tow. If you can see Chan. Even if you can't, see Hope--the dope...