Word: denham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he stood bolt upright on a parapet for 20 minutes, lighting the fuses of improvised jam-tin bombs with a cigaret and lobbing the bombs at the Germans. Also captured last week after a tank fight at the outpost of el-Mechili were Major General Michael Denham Gambier-Parry, tank strategist, and 2,000 men. Also captured in Libya, apparently while flying out to Egypt from Britain via Gibraltar and Malta, was Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, who unhappily commanded British troops in central Norway last year...
Other highlights of the contests tomorrow night will be the fight between Don Twombly, Freshman sensation, and John Bullitt, last year's University champion; Charlie D'Antremont from the Law School and Dave Pickman; and Dick Yalman versus Enos Denham. All the 175 pound bouts, featuring Bob Lerner, a Freshman, and Bill Brown of football fame...
...biggest bid for the spectacle trade long ago relinquished by D. W. Griffith. Two million dollars and two years' tribulations were spent in his transposition of the Arabian Nights tales to the screen, during which the outbreak of war forced him to move production from his Denham studios near London to the United Artists lot in Hollywood at an added expense...
Suspect (by Edward Percy & Reginald Denham; produced by Douglas MacLean & Arthur J. Beckhard). Three weeks ago Playwrights Percy & Denham scored a neat success on Broadway with their horror play, Ladies in Retirement. Not only is Suspect a much weaker play, but its good points are all hand-me-downs from Ladies in Retirement...
Ladies in Retirement (by Edward Percy & Reginald Denham; produced by Gilbert Miller) gave Broadway its first real shivers of the season. A good, broad-beamed, solid-walnut English melodrama, it mounts from scene to scene toward a fine, dimly lighted, clock-striking-midnight climax in Act III. Though not the most gory or grisly or ghostly of horror plays, it has what most of them lack: an excellent balance of atmosphere, characterization and plot...