Word: gunga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Victor McLaglen, 62, hulking cinemactor (The Informer, Gunga Din); and Margaret Pumphrey, 48, Seattle socialite; he for the third time, she for the second; in Reno...
Born. To Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 37, his swashbuckling father's son (The Prisoner of Zenda, Gunga Din), and Mary Lee Epling Fairbanks, 36: their third daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Melissa. Weight...
...four hours of it-was in its fourth Manhattan week (MGM cheerfully estimated that it would take in another $5 million to add to its already prodigious $32 million). For five midsummer weeks, the Palace advertised "a repertory of memorable motion pictures," including Love Affair (1939), Top Hat (1935), Gunga Din (1939), The Informer (1935), The Spanish Main (1945) and The Bells of St. Mary's. Elsewhere in Manhattan, moviegoers could see Charles Laughton in Henry the Eighth (1933), Fredric March in Les Miserables (1935), Bette Davis in Marked Woman (1937), Orson Welles in Citizen Kane...
...with what he calls an "author complex." In Whitehorse he was not particularly popular. ("I have never been popular. To be popular is to win the applause of people whose esteem is often not worth the winning.") His one social accomplishment was his recitation of Casey at the Bat, Gunga Din, The Face on the Barroom Floor...
...definitely worth seeing. Whether or not one likes the picture depends largely upon his temperament and mood at the time he sees it. To the extreme cynic it would seem unduly emotional. The naive but delicate might enjoy it exceedingly. And it doesn't pack the wallop that "Gunga Din" or "Roy Ralston--Cowboy...