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...confesses that he has murdered his father in some far place, all the young women in the neighborhood find him superbly glamorous; indeed, the publican's daughter Pegeen is ready to throw over her commonplace swain to marry him. Fired by all this adulation, mousy Christopher Mahon (Burgess Meredith) begins to see himself as a lion, cops all the prizes in a sports contest, becomes a very chesty...
...Class of 1945: Robert Chapin Alsop, Loring Burgess Jr., Richard Wendell Johnson, George John Kirn, Donald Nelson Michael, Raymond Moley 2d, Reed Moyer, Richard Joseph Ward, Lucien Hynes Warner Jr., Jack Harris Zinkow...
...University. He stood as godfather at the christening of infant Richard Seton Tedder, son of Air Chief Marshal Lord Tedder and his Lady, but refused to hold the child for photographers ("I might drop him!"). Bagpipes welcomed the Eisenhowers to Maybole, where the General was made a freeman and burgess. Ike, who had got in a little shooting on the moors, put the townsfolk at ease: "The poachers among you will find just as many birds left as before I came." Bagpipes piped him on his way to Balmoral Castle. The Eisenhowers' hosts there: George VI and Queen Elizabeth...
...dish in most respects, Diary ought to have turned out much saltier and spicier than it is. As the picture stands, it has its lights and moments, especially those in which Co-Producer Burgess Meredith, playing the part of a crazy old soldier, hops & skips around chewing flowers and ogling Paulette (Mrs. Meredith). But most of the comedy dissipates into cloudy, dimly political Gallic melodrama, and the raffish promise of the title is never redeemed...
...Include me out") Goldwyn is given the credit. It has worked out so well that actors and producers, all trying bravely to look like frustrated artists, have formed more than 100 independent companies. Newest comers: Burgess Meredith and his wife, Paulette Goddard, who have incorporated (with Benedict Bogeaus) as Camden Productions to make Diary of a Chambermaid...