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...Obedient Husband (by Horace Jackson; produced by Marwell Productions, Inc.). Marwell Productions is the sheerly corporate cloak of Actors Fredric March & wife (Florence Eldridge) and Play Director John Cromwell. For Yr Obedient Husband, Actor March returned to the stage after some ten years in Hollywood, where a prime specialty of his has been rakehellish roles. But in raking through the career of Richard Steele, 18th Century London journalist & man-about-town. Playwright Jackson had failed to scrape together enough action for three acts. What he had written was a costume play on wordy marital misunderstandings. When the critical votes were...
...drama puts its audiences through a workout. For him who is willing to do his part, filling in the lives of the chief characters and standing in their shoes, there is infinite pleasure. Color the piquancy of Frances Farmer, the skillful directorial use of the melodramatic cloak, the haunting refrain of the title song, and the character performances of Oscar Homolka and Barry Fitzgerald play innumerable variations on the Central theme. No matter how low a man may descend, while there is grace in his soul he need not be living in vain...
...House of Representatives' Cloak Room, Pennsylvania Congressman James P. McGranery tried to set off a firecracker under Arkansas Congressman Claude A. Fuller, held it too long, got a badly burned hand...
Hulas call for words as well as music. The dancer sings them, is free to improvise or repeat. She gives the accompanying musicians their cues, establishes the time with her swaying hips. Different dances require different costumes. Huapala wore grass skirts, tapa gowns, the Mother Hubbard cloak introduced by missionaries. She described in words and gestures the districts of Hawaii, the torments of despised loves, the varieties of Hawaiian fish. Connoisseurs were interested in her seated dances wherein she swayed from the waist, wriggled sinuous arms, clicked a pair of pebbles called ili ili. Mikel Hanapi, dressed in a cape...
...company's founders or of anyone else in the cloak & suit trade, President Cresap traces his line back to Maryland in 1710 and thence to Yorkshire, England. He is ashamed of one of his doughty ancestors who was tried for "inhuman activities" in the form of scalping an Indian...