Word: hortons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adam Foster scored in the third quarter from his center halfback post, and John Cate finished up the Crimson scoring with a telling shot in the final chapter. Horton Rorick saved the Blues from a shut-out in the last period when he passed goalie Captain Dough Thompson for a score...
...exhibition, which is being arranged in celebration with Phillip Horton, curator of the Poetry Room, will include old signed manuscripts, short stories, poems and illustrations created by past editors now prominent in contemporary literature...
...bodies after being prematurely brought to Heaven by somewhat befuddled Messenger 7013. Robert Montgomery, playing the dispossessed soul in the market for a body he can call his own, once more displays amazing versatility. Uproariously funny scenes are provided by the minor characters, especially blundering, vulture-visaged Edward Everett' Horton and James Gleason, who does one of the funniest pantomime jobs since Charlie Chaplin hung up the baggy pants and Hitler mustache. Claude Rains, as Mr. Jordan (the Angel Gabriel in a streamline edition) gives one of the subtlest characterizations of recent screen history...
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Columbia). There is hell to pay when Celestial Messenger No. 7013 (Edward Everett Horton) returns to heaven with the soul of a prize fighter (Robert Montgomery) snatched from his private plane before it crashed to earth in "a place called New Jersey." No. 7013, a green and sentimental hand, wanted to spare the fighter the pain of crashing. But The Book says that the fighter is scheduled to live for 50 more years, meantime becoming world's heavyweight champion. He would have survived the crash; he must be returned to his earthly body...
...seldom out of the camera's eye. They get Sheila Regan (Lana) into a pack of trouble. The Great Ziegfeld himself, who never appears in the picture, started it. Out spotting fresh talent for his new show, he found Sheila running an elevator. When his agent (Edward Everett Horton) arrives to tell her she is to be glorified, she is too stunned to speak. Her truck-driver boy friend (James Stewart) has to supply her address, telephone number. Told when and where to report for rehearsals, Sheila still can't answer. Says the agent, understandingly: "Nod once...