Word: enoch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oregon had wanted to use professional child actors, but Eddie Albert was convinced that amateurs would do better. He sold the idea to the principal of Emerson Junior High in West Los Angeles, picked students there to act the part of questioning schoolkids. Two Emerson youngsters -George Enoch, 13, and Josie Kegley, 12 -were "starred." Albert hired three professional actors to play the teacher, father and mother...
...Exeter Street Theatre. This is the latest production of British film mogul J. Arthur Rank, but it has very few of the usual attributes of English pictures. Written by Daphne du Maurier, it concerns an R.A.F. captain who is presumed dead in Europe for four years, then returns in Enoch Arden fashion to friends and family. The story is told haltingly and with an overdose of sentiment, but Michael Redgrave does a fine acting job. The co-feature, Russia On Parade, is a one-hour bore about Russian "sports"-lovers...
Tomorrow Is Forever (International-RKO Radio) is a specious, stylishly dressed domestic drama starring Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles-as well as cinema's old friends Rip van Winkle and Enoch Arden. Derived from a lending library novel of the same title, the film concerns a young lady (Claudette) who believes that her husband (Welles) was killed in World War I. After a longish period of mourning, she reluctantly remarries. But husband No. 1, by no means dead, continues to live on in Europe. On the eve of World War II, he returns to the U.S. with a foster...
...bright enough idea, Barry's fantasy winds up seeming more like just a foolish notion. For all the Elizabeth Ardenish chic with which he has surrounded his Enoch Ardenish story, Barry cannot pump any real life or lightness into it. The visions make neither good sense nor good nonsense; the ending of the play is lame; the dialogue is sometimes bright but often flashy, and riddled with literary puns ("I have been faithful to thee, Cynara. after my Old Fashioneds"). For its best moments Foolish Notion can thank deep-throated Actress Bankhead-a tiger in her wrath and also...
...those who could stomach it, there was a wonderful medical-art show on view last week in Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library. Its 162 meticulous, gruesome pictures represented the work of about half of the nation's 50 professional medical artists. There was a portrait of an 89-pound tumor shortly after removal, a thorax without any viscera, a woman being skin-grafted after removal of her breast...