Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Mendrek mugs his way into a pretty respectable rendition of a drunken newspaper editor, but Robert Perry is unconvincing as the male lead. A few catchy lines help to liven up the show, but they are too rare to compensate wholly for a comparatively poor plot and rather poor acting...
...Queen victoria lived in Windsor Castle after Vincent Price died. Eliot Nugent, sworn off of love since his best girl ditched him in Paris, is in our nation's capital trying to solve the "Irish question." Nugent gets into Hepburn's mansion (i.e, on stage) by taking her drunken cousin home from a wedding. He stays for the night, and you learn all that past history when the two principles, who can't sleep, meet downstairs at an early morning hour. Nugent says, "Tell me about yourself," so he does. Then Hepburn says, "Tell me about yourself," so he does...
...young for the war, Heydrich joined a radical and terrorist youth organization after the peace, was reputed at 15 a proficient killer. He joined the Navy as a cadet, won several promotions as an officer, was cashiered when a drunken brawl over a woman reached the courts. Then he entered the Nazi movement, looked about for a chance to rise. A chance appeared-blackmail. Learning that a Prussian official named Koch was in correspondence with the dissident Gregor Strasser, Heydrich courted Koch's wife and stole the letters. Armed with these, he extorted a recommendation to Himmler, who gave...
Jack Oakie drew a $500 fine, a 60-day suspension of his driving license and three years' probation for drunken driving in Los Angeles...
...Rijn had made himself a precocious reputation as the finest society portrait painter in rich, 17th-Century republican Amsterdam. A proud, flamboyant personality, he charged Amsterdam's solid burghers, soldiers and surgeons high prices for his solemn, cloudy canvases, married a woman of wealth, spent money like a drunken lord on paintings, prints, armor, tapestries and pearls. Some of the ruff-necked portraits Painter Rembrandt did during this early period were as prim and vapid as their complacent cheese-eating subjects. But on the side he prowled Amsterdam's ancient docksides and ghetto streets, drawing, painting and incessantly...