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...Chinese University employee stumbled across a giant coniferous tree--the Metasequoia--in remote central China. Ever since scientific journalists have squabbled as to whether Elmer D. Merrill, Arnold Professor of Botany, emeritus, or Ralph W. Chaney, professor of Paleontology at the University of California, is responsible for sending expeditions to bring back and distribute seeds from this "living fossil...
...Stewart Chaney had dressed up the play with two colorful and pleasing sets depicting the tower of the Empire State Building and the apartment in which most of the action occurs. Director Otto Preminger's staging is on the whole adroit; it may may be picayune to point out that the dialogue near the end of the second act is somewhat monotonous...
Otto Preminger directed "The Moon is Blue," and his efforts, if he made any, are without manifestation. Stewart Chaney's two sets are bright and cheerful, which the play is not. Probably the happiest person connected with "The Moon is Blue" is Barry Nelson. He got married on Monday...
William A. Chaney, historian, of Berkely, California A.B. University of California, 1943; Ph.D. University of California, June...
...Washington hotel in which Hope, by now framed for murder, finds life complicated by a convention of private detectives. While Boss Menace Charles Dingle cajoles Hope in a ripe julep accent, Peter Lorre, the busiest Menace, plants knives and clues all over the place, and hulking Sub-Menace Lon Chaney Jr. takes a simple, boobish pleasure in cracking walnuts with his biceps...