Word: ladd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waitkus with her large, glassy blue eyes, her brain bubbled with a strange, painful excitement.. That was out at Chicago's Wrigley Field near the end of the 1946 season when Eddie was playing first for the Cubs. Ruth fell hard. She stopped loving Movie Actor Alan Ladd, wrote off a passing outfielder and decided to do something big some day about Eddie, namely, kill...
Whispering Smith* (Paramount) is a standard horse opera, in Technicolor, full of fights, gunplay, chases, and the wholesome passion of a clean-cut Ladd (Alan) for a Good Woman (Brenda Marshall). The complicating fact is that Brenda is married to Alan's old friend (Robert Preston). But Preston develops a taste for too much liquor, too many women and two evil companions (Donald Crisp and Frank Faylen...
...Since Ladd is a company policeman in the days when roadbeds were rough and railroading rougher, Preston winds up on the villains' or losing side. There are some handsomely photographed train wrecks, but except for Frank Faylen's lynx-eyed portrait of a killer, Whispering Smith is a conventional western in every detail. Its only novelty: Actor Ladd, familiar as a sleekly tough urban type, carrying two guns and looking pretty uncomfortable as they flap around his chaps...
...summaries. Emerson (H) defeated Coburn (T), 3-2; Ladd (T) defeated Morris (H) 3-1; Ashley (H) defeated Williams (T), 3-1; Tenney (T) defeated Richardson (H), 3-2; Harding (H) defeated Banter...
Guests will include members of the Bond Astronomical Club and of the Amatour Telescope Makers of Boston. Professor Charles Smiley, director of the Ladd Observatory of Brown University, will represent the American Association of Variable Star Observers...