Word: aproned
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Roger Pryor will be remembered as the kinky-headed, bashful husband of last season's Apron Strings. Up Pops The Devil affords him another chance to play the part of a puzzled, naive young man, establishing him as a first rate juvenile. Sally Bates, who has had dealings with the Theatre Guild, carries off the honors for gracious and adult acting...
...Angeles, Calif., eight years ago, detectives found Walburga Oesterreich in a closet opening into the room in which her husband, Fred Oesterreich, apron manufacturer, lay murdered. Because the door of the closet was locked from the outside, she was never tried for murder...
...Capone would go straight to his brick house at No. 7244 Prairie Ave., the "little home" which he used to give substance to his story of being "out of the booze racket." Three years ago newsmen called upon him there. He opened the door to them, wearing a pink apron, carrying a pan of spaghetti...
...Apron Strings. Pansy Pomeroy, lady columnist, died leaving her son a multitude of letters telling him how to conduct his life. The effect of this legacy becomes apparent when he takes a bride. So completely impersonal is he toward her that it begins to seem as if he had never been apprised of a husband's obligations. There is a quarrel, but several shots of Scotch suffice to break the mother-fixation and the play ends with enlightenment in the offing. There is a great deal to be said for the humorous treatment of modern psychology. But here the humor...
...house of Big Business are many handmaidens-Architecture, Engineering, Painting, Etching, Advertising, Interior Decorating, et al. This week they are joined by Publishing, a damsel who has visited the house before but always wearing statistical spectacles, a cashier's eyeshade, a warehouse apron or the plain smock of a trade. This time, for the first time, she came in as fine a dress as ever Publishing wore to wait on the Arts, Travel, Sport, Fashion or Society. And this time she spoke a cosmopolitan language instead of industrial jargon, commercial slang, financial smalltalk. This time her name was FORTUNE...