Word: brooked
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...Harrison and Lilli Palmer are perpetuating a happy marriage at the Barrymore Theatre on 47th, where they grace John van Druken's' Hall, Book, and Candle. Robert E. Sherwood revised Philip Barry's Second Thresheld, with Olive Brook and Margaret, Phillips at the Morosco, 45th...
Many moons ago, when a tribe of Haida Indians was searching for a new camp site, a famed chief named Jumping Brook led the way to Kitimat, a coastal flatland in the rugged northwest portion of what is now British Columbia. Two aspects of the Kitimat site appealed to Chief Jumping Brook. It was near the sea (the Haidas built ocean-going canoes), and there was plenty of fresh water in the chain of lakes and rivers a short distance inland...
Last week, some 400 years after Jumping Brook's time, the Aluminum Co. of Canada, Ltd. followed the chief's reasoning in putting Kitimat at the center of a vast new West Coast industrial project. Alcan signed an agreement with the British Columbia government on water rights for a $500 million power development and aluminum plant in the Kitimat area...
...paid too heavily, in inner hardness and human loss, for the world's prizes. Even between him and the daughter he loves there is a gulf, now widened by her engagement to another such aging man of distinction as himself. Numb and parched, Josiah Bolton (Clive Brook) casts about for an unobtrusive way to die. But in time his daughter (Margaret Phillips) makes him feel her need...
...production is far from happy. Even its most talented performers fall short of themselves: Clive Brook's sufferings are too mannered, and Margaret Phillips, in a Katharine Hepburn-ish role, seems decidedly miscast...