Word: hortons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the scrofulous old curtain rolled up and all was forgiven in a gusty belly laugh. Edward Everett Horton, the 60-year-old grandpa of summer theater, blustered onstage and stood staring dazedly at the audience...
Giggles & Leers. So, last week, began Horton's 1,180th performance of Benn Levy's British farce, Springtime for Henry. In 15 years of off-&-on touring, Henry has brought Edward Horton almost $1,000,000. This summer, for the fifth consecutive season, Edward has taken the old boy on the summer circuit with a supporting cast of three (Lilian Bond, Elaine Ellis and Matthew Smith) and the prospect of an average $1,800-a-week net to add to Horton's earnings...
...straw-hat circuit, Henry is worth every C-note of it. Horton gives a carefully turned performance as one of the most redoubtable rakes that ever jumped a garden wall. "I do not fall into the bass drum," he admits, "nor do I go up with the curtain. But everything else, I do." He simpers like a ninny, gives masterly double and triple takes (and even a few one-and-a-half takes, a Horton refinement). He waggles his square head in an idiotic semaphore of self-satisfaction, leers with lips that fit together like two nicked razor blades...
...began starring in silent films, most of them box-office duds. After sound came, Horton began to win a movie public as a fuddy-duddy Mr. Fixit. In the high-grossing Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire pictures, he became one of the screen's best-known comedians. Of late years he has operated as a "scavenger," making pictures "whenever they have a bad part they think I can rewrite. I twist the lines up, and they turn on the camera-of course, they may not have any film in it, but they pay me." Last year, the movies and radio...
...woman (Wellesley's President Mildred McAfee Horton) stepped forward to receive the hoods of their honorary degrees - orange & black, edged with scarlet for Theology & Divinity, golden yellow for Science, purple for Laws, white for Arts & Letters...