Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martha Hodge, actress-daughter of the late Actor William Hodge (The Man from Home), took a moonlight dip at splashy Saratoga Springs without giving it even a first thought. In the small hours, after a long halt at a nightclub table, a couple of male acquaintances had taken to scuffling over the question of whether to go to bed early or late. Miss Hodge stepped into it and shortly was pushed into one of the fanciest ornamental fountain pools in all Saratoga...
...Ernst Lubitsch a good movie director and producer? One of the best: "Ninotchka" and "Heaven Can Wait" are typical products of the "Lubitsch touch." And is Jennifer Jones a good actress? Yes, and as beautiful as her co-star, Charles Boyer. This fellow Samuel Hoffenstein, can he write? Like a Parker 51. Then how come "Cluny Brown" is such a bum picture...
Miss Libby Holman, popular stage actress and star of the new musical, "The Best of Friends." Andrew Rosenthal, author of the show and members of the cast will be introduced by Francis O. Matthiesson, professor of History and Literature, at a Cambridge Citizens' Political Action Committee reception at the Club 100 today from 4:30 to 7 o'clock. All University men interested in the PAC are invited to attend...
Playing her old part of Kitty, the prostitute who is living in a dream world, Julie Haydon never misses. Always, she is just right--the Polack accent, the way Kitty walks--a fine actress, completely immersed in her role. James Dunn plays Joe, the man who interprets the world from the vantage point of a side table in Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace. Dunn is a sentimental Irishman, and this is a play by a sentimental Armenian, which is enough said. Dunn muffed some of his lines badly last night, demonstrating that he hasn't been...
...professionals called the Pilgrim Players. Community groups got interested in their morale-builders-Murder in the Cathedral, Geoffrey Whiteworth's Father Noah, Ernest Rhys's The Deluge-decided to do something themselves. Sheffield led the way. In 1943 its interdenominational Association of Christian Communities hired a professional actress as dramatic adviser, has since organized plays with groups varying from mothers' unions to tough boys' clubs in the slums...