Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AERIAL BUS will be built by ex-T.W.A. President Jack Frye in hopes of finding the long-sought-for replacement to the Douglas DC-3. Frye's projected high-wing, four-engine F-l will probably be built by a European company, sell for $350,000, haul five tons of cargo or 50 passengers at an aerial snail's pace (150 m.p.h.) but be able to use a very short runway...
...decorative, particularly when she romps artlessly about her basement apartment in scanties. but Comedienne Garrett's wit is more often brash than beguiling. In general, the film is callow where it should be young, and supported by dogged energy rather than a bubbling gaiety. In mid-film, Jack Lemmon adds some bracing laughter to the show with a slapstick attempted seduction of Betty Garrett. In this scene, it is as if someone put a jolt of fine brandy into a pot of Pablum. But once Lemmon is gone, Eileen grinds on with its predictable succession of songs and dances...
Barring Veteran Comic David Burns the cast is young, night-spotty, and largely new to Broadway, Pat Carroll, Jack Wakefield, Helen Halpin and Elaine Dunn should all have Broadway futures, but at the moment they can only enhance good material; they cannot save bad. What with undistinguished numbers and indistinguishable songs, a long-winded ballad about a killer and a dreadful adaptation of O Henry's Gift of the Magi, Catch a Mar! only intermittently catches...
Died. Aline Bernstein, 72, longtime top Broadway scene and costume designer (Reunion in Vienna in 1931, The Happy Time in 1949), longtime friend and confidante of the late Novelist Thomas Wolfe, model for Stage Designer Esther Jack in his novels The Web and the Rock and You Can't Go Home Again; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
Here he praises the saguaro, the prickly pear and the wicked cholla cactus with all the exuberance of a convert. His companions are no longer Columbia University students, whom he once taught as Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature, but creatures of the Sonoran sands -road runners, elf owls, jack rabbits, Gila monsters, tarantulas and scorpions...