Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After vanishing for nearly two decades, "The Ghost Goes West" materializes again, this time on the Brattle's screen. Combining slapstick and fantasy, Robert Sherwood's imaginative screenplay portrays the adventures of an ocean-going phantom...
...whose passions are somewhat more restrained. Although neither part demands exceptional acting, Donat manages to lighten his burr to achieve the transition from Murdoch to Donald. Jean Parker, However, looking like an English Claudette Colbert, is only a routine love-sick heroine. Although her attempted love affair with the ghost is a change from the ordinary, she has no opportunity to show any talent...
...great stands of timber around Ryderwood were cut down, it became almost a ghost town (see cut). The population, once 2,000, dwindled to less than 100 families. Last July, when the 130,000-acre cut-over area was set aside as a tree farm, Long-Bell put the town up for sale, refused all offers to sell it for salvage. Last fall a Los Angeles real-estate man named Harry Kem* turned up with a different idea. He had become interested in the problem of people past 65 who were having a hard time finding decent places to live...
...ghost of an almost forgotten art movement came to life in Manhattan last week. At the urging of a 57th Street gallery owner, 65-year-old Artist Marcel Duchamp* had set up the first major exhibit of Dada ever held in the U.S. The result was a collection of 300 of the most sardonic jokes ever perpetrated...
...Mary's hope that readers of this biography will find it free of "the animus which, regrettably, is part of the human make-up." The hope, regrettably, is not justified. Every last frailty and intimate secret of Bernarr Macfadden is exposed by Mary and her ghost with such relish that by the time they are through with him, the Father of Physical Culture sounds much more of a human being than he ever did before. Moreover, Bernarr takes on unexpected stature as the modern pioneer of the low-heel shoe, the bed board, enriched flour, sun bathing, brief swimsuits...