Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warner) takes Hollywood back for the third time to the soil-pay dirt, that is-of Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prizewinning 1924 novel. However, the ground has been pretty well cropped-over by now, and the corn cannot be strongly recommended for human consumption. Jane Wyman, nonetheless, injects an attractive glow into the pious heroine, the pure little rich girl who bears poverty, hard work and a doltish husband so meekly that, as would appear, her sufferings later give her the unchallenged right to run her son's life for him. Sterling Hayden is convincingly uninteresting...
There is an interesting note in last Tuesday's removal of Miss Jane Hoey as director of the Bureau of Public Assistance of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Miss Hoey's Bureau administers financial assistance to the blind, the needy aged, the totally and permanent disabled and to dependent children. The Secretary of her department, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, said Miss Hoey was fired not for incompetence (she had been in charge for eighteen years) but because the job was "a policy making position." It therefore has to be taken off civil service and given to a political...
Berle, Betty Mutton, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Froman, Joe E. Lewis, got up to reminisce about buxom Sophie Abuza of Hartford, Conn., who became Sophie Tucker and made the long haul from singing in the ginmills to the Ziegfeld Follies and the big time. Now pushing 70 and white-thatched, "The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas" will soon open a four-week stint at Manhattan's Latin Quarter. Said she, dabbing her eyes: "Some of the showmen who were around when I began, they're still around, dearie, but very few of the women are around." Sophie...
...Shows caught a new sister act in the making: the Metropolitan Opera's Coloratura Lily Pons and rubber-faced Comedienne Imogene Coca. Wearing sequined black lace and looking enough alike to be sisters, they kicked up their heels and scampered through a lusty, full-throated lampoon of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe warbling When Love Goes Wrong in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...
White Witch Doctor (20th Century-Fox), based on the 1950 novel, pits Missionary Nurse Susan Hayward against African tarantulas, black-magic practitioners and warlike natives. Without any noticeable change from her recent performances as Jane Froman and Mrs. Andrew Jackson, Susan manages to remain gracious, composed and well-groomed as she triumphs over all obstacles to bring hygiene to the jungle. Robert Mitchum plays an intrepid hunter who gives her a helping hand, but the best acting in the film is done by an actor named Charles Gemora, who plays a gorilla...