Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Academy Award Theater (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The spooky Maltese Falcon with Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor and Humphrey Bogart...
...words sounded impudent, as when she thumbed her nose, in pungent book reviews, at literary lights like G. B. Shaw and H. G. Wells. The cleverness and impudence matured into eloquence and insight, and in criticism and novels (The Judge, The Return of the Soldier, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon), Rebecca West proved herself one of the most ardently articulate Englishwomen of her time...
Young Ted, who went to work for Barnsdall after graduating from St. Paul's School, set out in 1935 with his own wildcatting and drilling company, Falcon Seaboard Drilling Co. Later, he organized Aero Exploration Co. to map oil lands as one of his jobs, traced the route of Big Inch from Texas to New Jersey. But Aero, which made aircraft surveys, gave him a hankering for the aviation business...
...Brothers Warner hit on a good thing when they teamed up Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet in the "Maltese Falcon," and they've used the squad in varying combinations ever since, most recently in "Passage to Marseille." The latest vehicle ranks somewhere below the "Maltese Falcon," and on a par with "Across the Pacific...
...Young Ideas" is not as silly as its name suggests. Mary Astor, seeming some-what older than in her "Malteso Falcon" days, is the mother of a couple of teenage brats who try to break up mama's marriage with a college professor so they can get back to heel-raising in New York night clubs...