Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Three Men on a Horse, Sam. Levene, Shirley Booth, David Wayne...
...this time played by George Montgomery,* is hired to recover it. In no time at all, the simple-looking case has branched out like a cuttlefish. The bulldoggish old dowager (Florence Bates) who hired Marlowe unaccountably fires him. He stays on for the sake of her frightened secretary (Nancy Guild), who can't bear to be touched by a man but wants to get over her peculiarity. The detective also tangles with a gang of gamblers, a blackmailer, three corpses, the Los Angeles police force, and the old bulldog's unpleasant son (Conrad Janis). In the long...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Ethan Frame, with Raymond Massey, Pauline Lord, Mary Anderson...
U.S.C.C. has tried to curtail silk imports into the U.S., but General MacArthur has insisted that it is up to U.S.C.C. to solve the problem of selling it. As one way, U.S.C.C. and the International Silk Guild plan to spend nearly $1,000,000 in an advertising campaign intended to regain silk's lost prestige with American women. This should help. But drastically lowered prices, barred until the end of the year, may be the only way to move the stockpile. Then the bottom may drop out of the retail price of silk goods...
Kingsblood Royal (which is the Literary Guild's choice for June) is a novel chiefly in the sense that it contains some of the most artificial fiction, dressed in the worst prose, that "Red" Lewis has ever written. In essence, it is a cut-&-slash pamphlet, packed to the boards with ferocity, diatribe and disgust. Kingsblood Royal is not another onslaught on the old established fact of Southern discrimination; it is a blow at the smug white of the Northern cities-at the man who merely dabbled in race prejudice until the industrial needs of World War II caused...