Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ability to get headliners in the audience to participate. Some of them, such as Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, chime in from down front. Others, such as W. C. Fields, Mickey Rooney, Victor Moore, Edgar Bergen, Dick Powell, Rudy Vallee, take over the stage. Murray exploits his guest stars brilliantly-by not exploiting them at all. They are never given billing, are often not even introduced. As a result, the audience feels it is really getting something extra for its money...
...sumptuous Hejaz style. The great table groaned under the weight of sweetmeats and whole barbecued sheep. In high good humor, Ibn Saud told brave tales of his youth. For hours the feasting continued, while the Wahabis made the night ring with martial songs and poems flattering the royal Egyptian guest...
...after dinner at Don Phillips' rancho, are sure that Don has Toni of the Ritz in his kitchen. Dinner engagements are booked weeks in advance. Bob Simpson is selling his single seat at the symphony now that he has met a very attractive someone, frequently a Cowie guest. Arab Kingsley has been humming concertos and tearing telephone books in half looking forward to his violin sessions interrupted momentarily by disbursing afloat...
...Guest in the House (Hunt Stromberg-United Artists) is the psychological complement of another good Broadway-derived melodrama, Tomorrow the World (TIME, Jan. 15), in which a little boy from Hitler's Germany tries to tear an American household apart. The heroine of Guest in the House is quite unpolitical, but she is a spiritual Nazi - a power-mad, not unfamiliar feminine type for whom psychiatrists could supply accurate names...
When at last Aunt Martha (Aline MacMahon) fixes everything up by torturing a key nerve of Evelyn's psychosis-a terror of birds-and driving her stark mad, the effect is heavily overmelodramatic. Up to then, Guest in the House is a sharp and scary if never definitive study of the tyranny of weakness, and of the sinister conflicts and confusions which it can inspire among the relatively strong...