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...Abilene, Texas, with ten other immigrants, Irish-born Greer Garson (now Mrs. Elijah E. Fogelson) took her final oath of U.S. citizenship with tears streaming down her face. "I am so happy about being an American now," she said, and explained the tears. Just before the ceremony, she had stopped to wash a cinder from her right eye. Reaching for some eye lotion, she grabbed the wrong bottle, gave her eye a burning bath of perfume...
John Donclan, who lost to the Middies, 5 to 2, last weekend, will start for the Crimson against an experienced and predominantly right-handed Amherst batting order. The only non-letterman for the Jeffs is catcher Bill Greer...
...Harvey Lembeck) from that show's original cast. Unfortunately, the script is not up to the job of sustaining the hilarity of its idea at feature length. The picture loses pressure when repeating its shenanigans, sighs windily in romantic interludes between Cooper and his WAVE wife (Jane Greer). But more frequently, when it gets up a full head of steam, U.S.S. Teakettle bubbles with...
...Company She Keeps (RKO Radio) tests Lizabeth Scott's capacity for self-sacrifice. She is a chic parole officer with full authority over the pretty parolee (Jane Greer) who is beating her time with Dennis O'Keefe. Lizabeth's determined nobility, especially when given a legitimate chance to send Jane back to prison, is something that neither the script nor Actress Scott can make believable. Moviegoers may take some comfort in Actress Greer's able performance as a bitter, man-hungry jailbird with a craving for respectability...
Director John Cromwell treats this trite subject matter in an unimaginative way, with the result that the picture rarely seems realistic, despite the fine acting of Miss Greer. At many points, the plot is crippled by weak dialogue. When Miss Scott asks the parole board to return her rival's civil liberties so she can marry the newsman; she says, "Please give her back her civil liberties." Small wonder that the answer...