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...Last summer, while she was playing at the Cape Playhouse at Dennis, Mass., she married tall, dignified Theatrical Producer Richard Stoddard Aldrich, 38, son of a late Hood Rubber executive' who headed the Harvard Dramatic Club in 1924. A short time after the wedding Gertie got a congratulatory cable from England...
...radio's big ten were the deftly written serial The Aldrich Family (sixth), the schmalz of Band Leader Kay Kyser (ninth), the soap-opera One Man's Family (tenth). Beating the graven image Charlie McCarthy by a whisker, Jack Benny led the pack for 1940. Others in Crossley's peerage: Fibber McGee & Molly, the Lux Radio Theatre, Bob Hope, Kate Smith, Major Bowes...
Biggest rise, according to the Crossley findings, was that of The Aldrich Family, which was in 40th place a year ago. Biggest fall was that of Pot o' Gold, which plummeted from 10th to 57th place. Gratifying to radio's peers and commoners alike were Crossley's observations that programming had improved, that radio had more people by the ear than ever...
...Passion (by Edward Chodorov & H. S. Kraft, produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers). Advance notices hinted that this play was about Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson. The hint can be disregarded. The drama begins as an acid study of the relations between a jaded, unsavory novelist (George Coulouris) and his wife, part journalist, part demon, played by sinister Gale Sondergaard, whose performances here and in the cinema (The Letter) mark her as the female viper of the dramatic year...
...poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction. Sir James Barrie, Edna Ferber, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Galsworthy, John Donne, Abraham Lincoln, Pearl Buck, Eve Curie and some score of others all contribute their tones of voice. Few of them have much of value to say, and only two of them-Donne and Curie-say it with any nobility; but at least they mesh with their material...