Word: hume
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ralph Wilby (alias Alexander Douglas Hume) directed the exhumation-from New York City's Tombs Prison. He had purloined $386,920 from the New York realty management firm for which he worked, then absconded. He was captured last spring at Victoria, extradited, convicted. At first he would not tell where his unspent loot was cached. But last week, facing a 20-year sentence, fortyish Ralph Wilby talked...
...Jewish doctor (Steve Geray) treats his injured hand. A theatrical costumer (Agnes Moorhead) gives him clothes. Not all the people he meets are brave, or intelligent, or kind. His former sweetheart (Karen Verne) has married a Nazi, his brother is a Storm Trooper. But his old friend Paul Roeder (Hume Cronyn), a rabbity little workman who is grateful to the Führer for his job and his three babies, also turns out to have a heart...
...best-selling novel of the same title (TIME, Sept. 28, 1942), had the makings of one of the finest of anti-Fascist moving pictures. It has become, instead, two hours of handsome, earnest inadequacy, which comes to life only by fits & starts-most memorably in the performances of Hume Cronyn, Agnes Moorhead, Steve Geray. A free use of stream-of-consciousness dialogue and of comment by the ghost of one of the escapers, to point the moral and adorn the tale, succeeds only in diluting both, far more regrettably than the old came-the-dawn subtitles used...
...Princess Cicogna's the talk was about Allied officers. The English and American officers are darlings too. So helpful. So impressionable. Lieut. General Mark Clark came to dinner. Brigadier General Edgar Erskine Hume, too, who ran that A.M.G. thingamajig...
Born. To Ronald Colman, 53, aging, greying British cinemactor; and Benita Hume, 37, onetime cinemactress: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Juliet. Weight...