Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the plodding thoroughness of Henry James developing a character in fourteen chapters, Playwright Robert Sherwood as director of "Adam-Had Four Sons" has made it into a psychological dissection of an upperclass family during the last war. Warner Baxter, stouter than in his matinee idol days but still a portrayer of semi-phlegmatic emotion, acts the bachelor-ed broker whose love for his housekeeper (Ingrid Bergman) is disturbed by her suspicious actions in protecting him from knowledge of the unfaithfulness of his daughter-in-law. Susan Hayward looks, as well as plays, the part of the scheming minx...
...syndicate to buy Mr. Adams' holdings (73% of the club's stock), reputedly worth $350,000. The 17 new owners, thoroughly acceptable to Judge Landis, include Casey Stengel, the Bees' manager; Max C. Meyer of Brooklyn, manufacturer of Richelieu pearls; and Francis Ouimet, Boston's idol who was recently exalted to golf's brand-new Hall of Fame. With new working capital (Judge Landis had forbidden Grocer Adams to put any more sugar into the club), the Bees may sprout new wings, buzz up out of the second division for the first time in seven...
...Atlanta Journal's Washington correspondent, Ralph Smith, is a quiet, iron-grey, genial Southern gentleman who manages to cover the news without ever seeming to hurry. Newsman Smith, uniformly good-humored (unless someone clapper-claws his idol, Georgia's Senator Walter George), is not given to hysteria. But last week House clerks told him that the Seventy-Seventh Congress, in its first 100 days, had voted appropriations totaling $16,091,543,000. For his readers' benefit, he spelled it out: "sixteen billion, ninety-one million, five hundred and forty-three thousand dollars." Newshawk Smith then went...
...Matinee Idol William Faversham: "So effectively trimmed is he that you feel almost that he has been done by a committee...
...These people are only one set, a segregation of incorrigibles. They have worldly circumstance in their favor, but their destruction comes from within. They live and breathe--Mr. Schorer's powers of characterization are extraordinary--but luckily they are only a segment of the race. The falsity of their idol, however, has a wider symbolism...