Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Burgess Meredith began his brief career on Broadway two years ago by playing the Duck, Dormouse and Tweedledee in Eva Le Gallienne's production of Alice in Wonderland. He was a reform school hellion in Little Ol' Boy and a snippy Princetonian with white buckskin shoes in She Loves Me Not. For the past ten months he has been the voice of "Red" Davis, that hero of U. S. juveniles on the Beech-Nut radio hour. Grandson of a Protestant minister of Cleveland, Ohio, Meredith was sent to Manhattan to sing in the Cathedral of St. John...
...Some lean cows obstructing a muddy Louisiana detour cause the collision of two Chevrolets and the death of one of the animals. Next morning Judge Clummerhorn (Raymond Walburn), patriarch of Hope Center, finds Jane Dale (Wendy Barrie), runaway socialite, and Bill Shevlin (Spencer Tracy), duck-hunting lawyer, huddled, together in the car that has remained upright and apparently hating each other bitterly. Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court. When the cow, thinly disguised as veal stew, appears on the hotel's table...
Sworn in as a deputy, Shevlin has complete discretion over Jane Dale. He uses it to take her duck hunting, feed her peanuts, pay her fine when Judge Clummerhorn, as game warden, arrests her for shooting out of season. By the time they are on their way to be married in the one car that has been concocted out of the two wrecks, everything that can be done with the situation of two people stranded in a hick town has been done, effortlessly and good-humoredly, with excellent results as entertainment. If It's a Small World invites comparison...
...already an old man, deeply absorbed in the technique of broken color painting and already wracked with arthritis. The Durand-Ruel pictures were for the most part in Renoir's early manner. Outstanding were a luscious Bather and a self-portrait of the old gentleman in a white duck...
...Floyd Bennett Field in an hour, zoomed the runways and landed at Newark ten minutes later. Elapsed time: 11 hr. 34 min. 16 sec. Average speed: 212 m.p.h. Immensely pleased at beating famed Pilot Doolittle's record by 25 minutes, unfamed Pilot Andrews grinned to newshawks: "It was duck soup. . . . Wait until I tell Grace...