Word: brocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soldiers. At 1 o'clock in the morning of March 27, 1941, a little-known correspondent for the New York Times, Ray Brock, was sitting in a cafe in a suburb of Belgrade. Correspondent Brock had filed a story about the night's demonstrations against Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch's Government, which the police had broken up, and was having a drink before going home to bed. A Montenegrin he knew came up and whispered in his ear. Correspondent Brock dived for the door...
Glamour Preferred (by Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements, produced by Brock Pemberton ) is a Hollywood story which for a few moments is highly engaging, thanks to the acting of Robert Craven as an ostensibly silly Englishman. He plays a warming love scene, and brings down the house with a line which should be immensely discouraging to women who dress-to-please-the-men. (To his wife about to put on evening clothes: "You'd better nip along and sling into your kit!") But like Beverly Hills and Quiet, Please!, which preceded it to Broadway by a fortnight, Glamour Preferred...
Lady in Waiting (by Margery Sharp; produced by Brock Pemberton) took Comedienne Gladys George back to Broadway after a longish spell in Hollywood. She found a perfect part for herself, but unfortunately not much of a play. Dramatized by Margery Sharp from her own novel, The Nutmeg Tree, Lady in Waiting is like a party that starts off gaily, then turns into something where the cocktails weren't mixed right and the guests won't mix at all-leaving nothing but the charm and high spirits of the hostess to save...