Word: fitzgeralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jersey Life. In Jersey City, Mrs. Michael Fitzgerald locked up her fifth-floor apartment before going to bed, left her husband in the kitchen with a bottle. She woke later to a pounding on the door, found it was Mike. Said he: "Fell out of the kitchen window." He explained that he had encountered cradling clotheslines at the fourth, third, and second stories, and concluded: "Never missed...
Sons and Soldiers (by Irwin Shaw; produced by Max Reinhardt, Norman Bel Geddes & Richard Myers) trots out a lot o flossy china for a terribly bad dinner. Laid in 1916, it describes how a young bride for whom childbearing would be dangerous (Geraldine Fitzgerald) dreams the life of her unborn son (Gregroy Peck) all the way to 1942. It is a pretty hackneyed life most of the way - a Tarkington childhood, a Scott Fitzgerald youth, a John Dos Passos coming-of-age ; and it halts on the tragic threshold of war. But the young bride decides to have a child...
Consultation with the ringleaders of the end-of-school Blowout discloses plans which we are in an advanced stage. Rumors of a name band (viz. Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Pastor, etc.), a flashy hotel ballroom, and a downright reasonable entrance fee indicate a worthwhile way to spend that all night liberty which is customarily extended the "outcumbents" of NSCS. Should you have some good ideas or contacts, see Bob Grant of Class...
...orphans, (the boys are cute and the girls are mournful), to America. The recent best-seller "Keys of the Kingdom" won our hearts on behalf of Chinese missionaries, and there is absolutely no reason for disliking their daughters. But the story doesn't begin to perk up until Barry Fitzgerald arrives on the scene, and Deanna's white lies (for the benefit of the orphans of course) are forgiven and forgotten. Her voice is as good as always and in other ways she's better than ever...
...Ella Fitzgerald is also promised. While her singing of late is-not on the same level as in the old Chick Webb days, Ella is still, for my money, worth a baker's dozen of Dinah Shores and Helen O'Connells...