Word: jeffreys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Mothers (Warner Bros.) momentarily subordinates the maternity marathon of the four luscious Lemp sisters (Rosemary, Priscilla, Lola Lane & Gale Page) to the vicissitudes of their husbands (Eddie Albert, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh, Dick Foran) and music master father (Claude Rains). Husband Lynn is about to write the great American symphony. Husband Albert is about to discover a germ. But since Husband McHugh has lost all the neighbors' savings when a Florida hurricane hits his real estate, the Lemps spend most of Four Mothers paying back...
After 13 minutes of aimless chitchat by the actors, this unpleasant poser is finally planted on the drooping shoulders of Thomas Mitchell, a golden-hearted old college professor whose days are numbered by heart disease. Along come a former star pupil (Jeffrey Lynn) and his pretty wife (Geraldine Fitzgerald) whose happy home has been upset by a prowling, pernicious femme fatale (Mona Maris). Mitchell tracks her down with such professorial precision, makes such painfully punctilious notes on her case that his conclusion that she is loaded with "greed, selfishness and brutality" will come as a surprise...
...Duke Ellington, with his 15-piece orchestra and two singers (Ivie Anderson and Herbie Jeffrey), played for two and a half hours in Colgate University's Memorial Chapel at Hamilton. N. Y. It was the first time that a major U. S. college had ever put a jazz band on its official concert course. Colgate made some pretence that the Duke's performance was-ah-cultural. But to 1,450 students, faculty members and townspeople who crowded the chapel, no such excuse was necessary. The audience would have rocked the joint, had not the Colgate Maroon warned beforehand...
...gloomy Pitcher, son," replied the Sage of the Age. "Amherst admits the Sambrinas are strong, but a Gordon to my information, it'll be John 27, Jeffrey...
...William Pepperell to reduce this French threat to Anglo-Saxon supremacy in the northeast. It fell in a few weeks, was returned to France when King George's War (a Western Hemisphere overflow of Europe's War of the Austrian Succession) was settled. Ten years later Lord Jeffrey Amherst (hero of a famed college song) took it again with the help of famed Tactician Colonel James Wolfe, who died later in the storming of Quebec. Since then it has been British soil...