Word: hortons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important contracts for Army-Navy equipment. For assistance, which he will sorely need, Mr. Knudsen last week drafted Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.'s able President John David Biggers, one of the few industrialists in whom Franklin Roosevelt has displayed confidence. Another recruit was handsome Publicityman Bob Horton, who duly introduced himself to Mr. Knudsen...
...gulped Mr. Horton...
...halfway mark, when the rain-harried field narrowed down to the 66 lowest scorers, Favorite Sam Snead led the parade along with lanky Horton Smith and bulky Lawson Little - all three tied at 141 for 36 holes. Snead, whose first-round 67 was the lowest opening-round score ever chalked up in the Open, attracted the largest gallery. Maybe this was the year, they figured, that he would outwhammy his famed spotlight jitters...
...latest theatrical venture, Edward Everett Horton has turned Casanova. If there is any one actor who is not the great lover type, it is he; but still, he handles the part with surprising adeptness and conviction. Although shot with the conventional misunderstandings and confusion of names which are all straightened out in the third act, it supplies a good deal of laughs from curtain to curtain. The dialogue is clever in spots, but the facial and vocal expressions of the star really bring down the house...
...girl who desires "the decent thing" but shoots her husband because he brings his mistresses home to tea, Marjorie Lord Combines youthful beauty with more than adequate acting. Gordon Richards as Johnny Jelliwell and Barbara Brown as his seducible wife, are good enough backdrop for Horton's inimitable double-talk comedy. The show is well-polished from beginning to end and proceeds at a rapid clip. By such clever setting arrangements as substituting paintings of still life for those of nudes between the first two acts, more is said about Casanova's conversion to "the decent thing" than through dialogue...