Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cagneys' first independent film suggests that their worst wishers were dead right. Johnny Come Lately stars the man who was a top Warner's moneymaker in a role he likes and to which he gives everything he has. It introduces to the screen Grace (Kind Lady) George, luminous in a role which should so endear her to U.S. cinemaudiences that she may well become overnight on the screen what she has been for years on Broadway - the official quintessence of elderly? femininity. The film it self is rich nostalgic fare, elegantly dished out, about small-town politics...
...story, which manages to be popular and literate at the same time, tells of the efforts of a gallant old lady of reduced means (Grace George) to fight the local political octopus (Edward McNamara) through her newspaper. It also reports the help she gets, in dire extremity, from a hobo ex-journalist (James Gagney). En-route to victory the hobo develops an interest in the old lady's niece (Marjorie Lord), makes a useful friend of the whooping, plume-clad matron of the local sin hall (Marjorie Main), and punches his way through enough physical obstruction to appease those...
...they wanted to do it. Bit players who have tried creditably for years to walk in shoes that pinched them show themselves in this picture as the very competent actors they always were: there has seldom been as good a cinematic gallery of U.S. small-town types. Grace George seems effortlessly to have learned what so many transplanted Broadway actors ache over -how to project her touching elegance in a medium...
...Harold D. Behrman was married to Miss Grace Katz of New York in Menora Temple, Brooklyn. Ushers at the ceremony included Pfc. Morris Fell, Pfc. Albert Greenwald and Pfc. Arnold Caplan, all of Company A, as well as Mr. Leo Schumer, a recent alumnus. Brooklyn College was the original scene of the Behrman romance...
...Wand also has a robust sense of humor. One of his favorite stories is about himself. While Wand was Archbishop of Brisbane, he visited a young clergyman in the interior. The young man was unmarried, ate all his meals at a rather simple restaurant to which he invited His Grace of Brisbane. The waitress knew her regular customers and took the young clergyman's order first. Then she turned to Archbishop Wand, wearing his reddish purple rabat (clerical bib) under his clerical collar to indicate that he was in Episcopal Orders. "And now, Robin Red Breast," said the waitress...