Word: jon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Ulen has also lost Jack Edwards, a 50-second 100 man, Crimson sprinting may not feel the loss too severely. Three juniors--Chouteau Dyer, Jon Lind, and Pete Macky--formed three quarters of a free style relay team that placed fourth in the country at the N.C.A.A. meet last spring...
Troilus' firm foundation is British Poet Christopher Hassall's libretto, which keeps things happening from curtain-up. The plot presents the human side of the besieged Trojans and particularly the widow Cressida (sung by Phyllis Curtin), who succumbs to Troilus (Jon Grain), partly through the conniving of Pandarus (Norman Kelley), only to be captured by the Greeks. By the time she puts herself to the sword, she is at least as credible as Tosca, as touching as Mimi...
Divorced. By Frances Langford, 39, jukebox, radio and film songstress: Jon Hall, 42, sometime breechclouted star of South Sea island films (The Hurricane); after 17 years of marriage, no children; in Titusville...
...Stevenson, so the movie faithfully echoes other good movies: the graveyard encounter between boy and convict in Great Expectations is almost exactly reproduced, while the affectionate bond between a rogue and youngster that illumined both Kidnapped and Treasure Island is duplicated in Moonfleet by Rapscallion Stewart Granger and Orphan Jon Whiteley...
...plot turns upon a lost diamond of great price, but mostly the film is a string of lively, unrelated escapades. Granger plays the picaresque gentleman with style, and seems equally at home embracing a flamenco dancer, dodging thrown knives, or winning a duel with a halberd-swinging smuggler. Jon Whiteley, who distinguished himself in last year's The Little Kidnappers (TIME, Sept. 6), proves again that Britain still has the world monopoly on believable child stars...