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...than is usually portrayed. Appearing at rehearsal one day made up as a 60-year-old, Beverly persuaded the company that she was right?including Director Capobianco. Onstage, that makeup lends a harsh poignance to the climactic moment when Elizabeth, her voice dry and pinched, sentences her recalcitrant lover Essex to death...
...stoutest cynic. One example is a thoroughly detailed struggle with a "malevolent thing"-endured in the early '20s by Author Beverley Nichols and his friend Lord St. Audries in a dilapidated house in Torquay, Devon. Underwood also deals at length with the carefully analyzed spookery at Borley Rectory, Essex. Before the house was destroyed in an appropriately mysterious 1939 fire, several researchers who spent many days and nights investigating the strange goings-on at the rectory reported unexplainable experiences involving figures, voices, messages, poltergeists and odd lights. Today, though only ruins remain, strange events still occur at Borley...
Died. Norman Reilly Raine, 76, author of short stories and screenplays; of a stroke; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Though he turned out such top movie dramas as The Life of Emile Zola (for which he won a 1937 Oscar), Elizabeth and Essex and A Bell for Adano, Raine was probably best known as the creator of Tugboat Annie, the bumptious, bighearted heroine of 75 Saturday Evening Post stories and the 1933 Hollywood film in which Marie Dressier portrayed Annie and Wallace Beery played Terry, her soused spouse...
...they were not only from New Hampshire but had also been wearing the same clothes all day long -invited their bus driver onto the boat with them. By the time he returned, half his busload had already assembled and were impatiently demanding passage back to Essex. But the Losers had also gotten the bus driver drunk and so, when Mr. Loser boarded the boat for another swing around the harbor, Mrs. Loser led the bus driver off to the nearby sand dunes, leaving one of the chauffeurs to entertain her half-stewed teenage daughter. Meanwhile, the rest of the group...