Word: adria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sandra Chroness of Oneenta, N.Y., and Bertram Hall, who is concentrating in history and literature; Adria Holmes of South Hadley, Mass., and Whitman Hall, concentrating in philosophy; Evelyn Janover of New York and Barnard Hall, majoring in history and literature; Shirley B. Johnson of Wichita, Kansas and Eliot Hall, concentrating in government; carol Latter of Bronx, N.Y., and Barnard Hall, majoring in history and literature; Marina von Neumaun of Princeton, N.J., and Holmes Hall, concentrating in government...
...adaptation of the Adria Locke Langley best seller of the same name, A Lion is in the Streets is patterned on the career of the late Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. It is a much freer version that the recent Academy Award-winning All the Kings Men and a much less convincing one. While All the Kings Men depicted an era and a people as well as Willy Stark, A Lion is in the Streets portrays only Hank Martin, a character divorced form his context. For this reason it lacks much of the color of its black and white predecessor...
...Based on Adria Locke Langley's 1945 bestseller, the film is laid in an unspecified "cotton-growing state" that is readily identifiable as Huey Long's Louisiana. Demagogue Cagney, married to a Yankee schoolteacher (Barbara Hale) and deep in an affair on the side with a swamp siren (Anne Francis), mounts the first rung of the political ladder by accusing a wealthy cotton-ginner of short-weighting the local farmers. When one of his followers kills a deputy and is shot, in turn, while awaiting trial, Cagney grabs headlines by haling the dying man into court and insisting...