Word: bronsonism
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...mistaken for the true Inspector-general who is to investigate municipal inefficiency, arrives in a small Russian town, and after being wined and dined by the officials, proceeds on an attempted seduction of the mayor's wife, Jackie Proctor, and ends up mistakenly engaged to his daughter, Edie Bronson...
...balmy sisters add the plaintive touch of comedy that makes the play so poignant. Jane Spencer's performance is some of the finest amateur acting that has been presented in any of the productions near Harvard Square and is alone worth the admission fee. Along with them comes Edith Bronson playing the role of Lucy, the maid. Her acting is of the most charming sort--and we might add that she is too. Albert Feather, the villain, is done by Jerry McMechan with a dash and swagger that deftly betray his shallow bravado...
...crossexamination, U.S. Attorney Matthias F. Correa concentrated less on this story than on its author. Willie admitted that he had been known at various times as Morris Bioff, William Berg, Harry or Henry Martin, Mr. Bronson. Then Correa went into Bioff's testimony on previous occasions, got him to admit to one lie after another given under oath. When the total reached six, Judge John Clark Knox interrupted: "Don't you feel bound by the sanctity of an oath...
...Francisco's possemen are the best drilled. Probably the most swashbuckling group of two-gun capitalists that ever pulled a bootstrap, its 35 members include George J. O'Brien, treasurer of Standard Oil Company of California; Roy Bronson, attorney for Aluminum Company of America; Charles S. Howard Jr., son of Seabiscuit's owner; Tom Bacon, for whose grandfather the University of California's Bacon Hall is named; Bob Holliday, ex-publisher of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Bronson Cutting award to James N. Spuhler 1G., of Tucumcari...