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...North (by Owen Davis, produced by Alfred de Liagre Jr.) is based on The New Yorker* sketches and a detective novel by the New York Sun's Dramacritic Richard Lockridge and his wife. The Norths (Albert Hackett & Peggy Conklin) are a nice young Greenwich Village couple who have a nice time until Mr. North opens the living-room closet to get the mixings for a drink and a corpse falls out. This rigid, sudden corpse-fall, the best in many dramatic seasons, is executed by a young actor named Robert Lieb who gets no program credit. Thereafter the Norths...
...took more than three months for shooting, built 80 sets (average for a feature is 40), replaced the 1913 custard pie with a new-style, squshier, stickier, whipped-cream pie, summoned oldtime Pie-slinger Buster Keaton to hurl 56 of them; called in Mack Sennett, Chester Conklin, Jed Prouty, many another old-timer to impersonate themselves, resurrected Keystone Cops* and Bathing Beauties, the bewitchingly crossed eyes of Bartender Ben Turpin. Many a fan sat twice through the heartthrob antics of 1939 to see the side-splitting antics...
...quote from your article on Professor Conklin: "On the radio he listens to practically nothing except Comedian Eddie Cantor...
...TIME, July 3, you quote Biologist Edwin G. Conklin...
...Conklin rubbed his chin, named her Mary. She is now Mrs. Samuel Masland, wife of a Towson, Md. electrical contractor...