Word: gingering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Intruder (Associated Artists) is a happy example of the British talent for murmuring graceful commonplaces. Made from a Robin Maugham novel, Line on Ginger, the picture begins when a stockbroker (Jack Hawkins), home from an afternoon of golf, surprises a burglar (Michael Medwin) in his house. The man proves to be "Ginger" Edwards, a soldier the broker commanded in his regiment during World War II-and a good soldier he was. What has gone wrong with him? The broker asks, but before he can get an answer, Ginger takes French leave.* As the broker goes from one to another...
...body home from the nearby lane in which they found it. and the doctor and the policemen who were called in to take charge, all agreed that Harry had been the victim of a heart attack. Nobody thought to put any blame on the innocent-looking bottle of ginger beer that was found in Harry's pocket. Mrs. Grice. mother of six and once again heavy with child, put the bottle on the kitchen table and set herself to comforting her children...
...midst of the turmoil, talk and tragedy filling the Grice kitchen, twelve-year-old Beryl decided that she wanted a drink. Her mother uncorked the ginger-beer bottle, poured some of its contents into a cup and gave it to Beryl. Twenty minutes later Beryl was dead. The doctor, the neighbors and the policemen agreed that the child must have died of shock and grief. Beryl's body, like her father's, was taken away in an ambulance. The neighbors left. But that night two-year-old Pamela could not sleep. Mrs. Grice carried her to the kitchen...
...Beachcomber (J. Arthur Rank; United Artists). Asked who discovered the South Sea Islands, a schoolboy once replied: "Somerset Maugham." He was right, of course. Captain Cook found some geographical points, but he missed the emotional one that Sadie Thompson and Ginger Ted, the supreme remittance man in all literature, have supplied to millions. Ted is back again in this second screen version of The Beachcomber. This time Actor Robert Newton sees, as Charles Laughton in the 1939 version failed to, the low, colonial swank of the fellow, and plays it for the snickers it deserves...
Friday with Garroway (Fri. 8:30 p.m., NBC). With Ginger Rogers, Singer Felicia Sanders...