Word: howards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charter members include Professor Harry T. Levin, Howard M. Le Sourd, Dean of the School of Public Relations at Boston University, and Clarence Derwent, president of Actor Equity...
...five signers were Professors Zechariah Chafee; William Ernest Hocking, Howard Mumford Jones, Perry Miller, and Law School Dean Erwin Griswold...
...Seattle Times, which turns sideswipe into sidewipe, nothing is ever unique. The Times also dislikes the mere mention of blood "except in the cases of transfusions and hounds." And in the Scripps-Howard papers, among others, robbers are never bandits. Roy Howard says that bandits are found only in Mexico, and that they all died out with Pancho Villa anyway...
Time for Elizabeth (by Norman Krasna & Groucho Marx; produced by Russell Lewis & Howard Young) was a tin-and-cardboard comedy which was meant to be box office but turned out to be a bore. Closing after eight performances, it showed little of what its collaborators are best known for: Groucho Marx, as playwright, lacked the divine madness he displays as a performer; while the smooth Krasnagraph that reeled off Dear Ruth and John Loves Mary badly needed oiling...
...River (Howard Hawks-United Artists). When people discuss the real art ists in picturemaking, they seldom get around to mentioning Howard Hawks. Yet Hawks is one of the most individual and independent directors in the business. Even when he has a vapid chore to do, he gives it character; when a picture really interests him, he gives it enough character to blast you out of your seat. Red River, which Hawks produced and directed, clearly interested him a lot. It is a rattling good outdoor adventure movie...