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...built-in deficiencies of the role made her decide to quit. Eileen Heckart, as an often Auntie Mame-like Deedee Grogan, handles wise-cracks, insults, and pathos equally well, and looks appropriately garish in Miss Ballard's costumes. Madeleine Sherwood is hateful enough as Norma's mother, and Richard Derr, as the father of many, is grey flannel through and through...
What makes the business highly profitable is that a private weatherman needs nothing but brains to start, and has a free, ready-made research staff in the U.S. Weather Bureau. To launch Los Angeles' National Weather Institute in 1945, Weatherman Edward B. Derr merely paid $40 for a set of 15,000 surplus weather maps going back to 1905. By using the old maps and current Weather Bureau bulletins to chart climatic patterns for his customers, and by using his weather-wise head in the bargain, he now grosses well over $1,000,000 annually, has a staff...
Shirl Conway, the harassed New York visitor, is also the show's gayest figure. Richard Derr is engaging as her city beau; and Gloria Marlowe and Barbara Cook make two fresh and appealing Amish ingenues. Tamiris has devised some dances hat have lure as well as local color, and Raoul Pene du Bois some pleasant sets...
...Mass.; Warren M. Little, Brookline, Mass.; Hubert C. Maguire Jr., Belmont, Mass.; Robert C. Mello, Rutland, Vt.; Irvin G. Murray, Farmington, Conn.; John Richards 2d, Groton, Mass.; Robert Rittenburg, Boston, Mass.; Robert S., Twitchell, Long Beach, Calif.; John D. Walecka, Wauwatosa, Wisc.; Donald R. Whitehead, Wollaston, Mass.; Thomas S. Derr Jr., Waban, Mass...
Died. Frederic Rodrigo Gruger, 82, dean of U.S. magazine illustrators who helped design he Satevepost's first modern cover, illustrated John Marquand's "Mr Moto" yarns and Earl Derr Biggers' "Charlie Chan" series...