Word: fredric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the stage adaption of Adano (by Playwright Paul Osborn) opened in New York, Lieut. Colonel Toscani flew home from Italy on leave. He was entertained by Actor Fredric March (the stage Joppolo), Author Hersey, and Mayor LaGuardia. Solemnly he began to sign letters "Frank (Major Joppolo) Toscani...
...Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences & Professions, Inc., among whose labor statesmen are numbered Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland, Actor Fredric March and Playwright Moss Hart, got into the fray with $1,840 worth of newspaper ads. They urged Americans to contribute to the strikers at General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel or "any other struck corporation." (Presumably each strike's issues and merits were beside the point...
...wrote George Bernard Shaw, 89, of Artist George Fredric Watts, who would be 137 if alive today. Last week a British biography of Watts arrived in the U.S. (The Laurel and the Thorn, by Ronald Chapman). Along with it came a Shavian review in the London Sunday Observer. The book proved that it took six women to give frail, flowing-haired Painter Watts the feather bed existence his art required. Shaw's review proved that one of the six, auburn-haired actress Ellen Terry, means a lot more to 89-year-old Shaw-even today-than she ever...
Playwright Paul Osborn's Broadway version of Adano overcame many of the stage's physical limitations by the notably humorous, believable, touching performances of most of its minor characters and by the expert work of Fredric March as Joppolo. It was, nonetheless, episodic. Hollywood's Adano, despite an unlimited camera horizon, also manages to be episodic. Its views of shell-struck Adano are convincing enough, and its opening jeep's-eye discovery of the torn little town, with a mocking glimpse beyond shattered walls of a poster of Mock-Hero Mussolini, is excellent. But the people...
...father of one, copped the "Father of the Year" title awarded by the National Father's Day Committee, which also chose: General Dwight D. Eisenhower, father of one, as "outstanding father of the war," and made low, respectful bows to Walter Lanier ("Red") Barber, sportscaster, father of one; Fredric March, actor, father of two; Jack Benny, comedian, father of one; and Bing Crosby, father of four...