Word: gardner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elight clubs comprised of second year law students qualified last week for next spring's quarterfinals. They are, in order of standing: Choate, Langdell, Casner, Hardee, Morgan, Griswold, Scott, and Gardner...
JOHN SINGER SARGENT'S flickering, passionate portrayal of a Spanish dancer (opposite) is the popular favorite at the nation's most personal great museum. The museum was conceived and built by a wild, plain-faced little redhead named Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924). She has been called the "Improper Bostonian...
...Isabella Gardner inherited millions of dollars from her father (a Manhattan importer) and millions more from her husband, John Lowell Gardner, who was a pillar of Boston society. She enjoyed the money. Young "Mrs. Jack" buffaloed Boston by such antics as strolling down Tremont Street with a lion on a leash, and high balling to a North Shore party at the throttle of a chartered locomotive. Once, when asked to contribute to "The Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary," she remarked that she was not aware of a charitable eye or ear in Boston. Henry Adams described the effect...
First, Mankiewicz tries to recapture the salty flavor of epigramatic dialogue that marked All About Eve. Sometimes he partially succeeds. For example, a fading ingenue hurls "What have you got that I haven't?" at Ava Gardner, and is told by a mutual friend, "What she's got you can't spell, and what you have you used to have." But more often, the lines strain hard to evoke gasps of admiration; they produce only grunts of mystification. To prove that disaster has struck, a publicity agent says of a movie mogul, "I could tell something was wrong because...
...picture is almost rescued, however, by several searching performances and Miss Gardner's physique. The latter is well known. Humphrey Bogart, Edmund O'Brien and Marius Goring account for the talent. Bogart grows in stature with each new picture, and is most bengin and forceful as Maria's director and only friend. O'Brien is the press agent, and is skillful enough to play a man, undergoing startling moral growth in about forty-five minutes of film time with precision instead of only vigor. Goring is a lecherous South American millionaire in a very small part--which shows...