Word: jessica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theater of the Air (Sat. 8:30 p.m., Mutual). Jessica Tandy in Vanity Fair...
Tossed out on a Greenwich Village sidewalk with his belongings and young wife for being two months behind on his $42.50-a-month rent, Maxwell Bodenheim, 61, eccentric poet-novelist of the '20s (Replenishing Jessica, Naked on Roller Skates), was in need of a friend. New York City's Welfare Department, said Max, had let him down by assuring him that the rent would be paid...
...wrote Naked on Roller Skates, a novel about a girl who wanted to live with "an A number one, guaranteed bastard [who will] beat my heart and beat my brain . . . and lug me to . . . the lowest dives . . ." He wrote Replenishing Jessica, about a millionaire's promiscuous daughter. It became a bestseller in 1925; Bodenheim and his publisher were charged with selling obscene and indecent literature, but triumphantly beat...
...play is pap for sentimental housewives who, to begin with, love watching a husband & wife (Hume Cronyr & Jessica Tandy) play a husband & wife.* And though she is short on comedy? and he just short of farce, they play their roles well, give things a professional air. The play itself is full of the standard details and recognitions pf marriage: its conversational small change and domestic small changes, its emotional freezing and boiling points, male obstinacies and female whims. Some of these are lively, rather more are dull, but all are such cliches that the play could have been written...
...Jessica Tandy, as his wife, has a comparatively small part but does extremely well with it. She turns what could have been a shadowy, unremembered character into a completely human, not so easily forgotten personality...