Word: electras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eugene O'Neill scored a triumph the hard way, in Frankfurt, Germany. His Mourning Becomes Electra, once banned by the Nazis, was played there without an intermission. It took 5½ hours, got 15 curtain calls...
...Hall L. Hibbard, 42, the $58,500-a-year vice president and chief engineer. Witty, brilliant, he designed the Electra, Hudson, P-38 and Constellation...
Katherine Hepburn, long nettled by Hollywood's unimpassioned response to her idea of filming Eugene O'Neill's lengthy, incestuous Mourning Becomes Electra, lamented the fact of movie censorship. Los Angeles Times Drama Editor Edwin Schallert reported that "substantially this is what [she] told me": "Really deep consideration of the issue of sex . . . has no chance to be translated onto the screen under the present system of censorship. Yet at the same time, in musicals and other lighter entertainment, you find sex exploited in an intriguing, inveigling, 'peeking' sort of way that is much more...
...Miami's 36th Street airport, a K.L.M. Lockheed Super-Electra landed ten passengers, 25,000 first-flight "covers" for stamp collectors, eight hours and 44 minutes after taking off from Curacao. It was the first scheduled Caribbean-U.S. flight ever made by a commercial plane that did not belong to Pan American Airways...
...carried President Roosevelt some 25,000 miles through the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific, and the old (World War I) destroyer Pope. The British lost the heavy cruiser Exeter, which by skillful maneuver drove the Admiral Graf Spee to her ignoble end in 1939, and four destroyers (Encounter, Stronghold, Electra, Jupiter). The Dutch lost two light cruisers (Java and De Ruyter), two destroyers (Kortenaer and Evertsen). Australia's Navy lost its light cruiser Perth, the armed sloop Yarra. Probable loss of life: about 800 on the Houston, 125 on the Pope...