Word: ladd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Desert Legion (Universal-International), a tepid melodrama set against the blazing sands of the Algerian desert, has no meteorologists, but it presents Alan Ladd as a French Foreign Legionnaire who stumbles on to a mysterious city named Madara, beyond a hidden pass in the Iraouen Mountains. Legionnaire Ladd never had it so good as he does in Madara. He takes the Algerian equivalent of a bubble bath, and is entertained by sword dancers while the emir's gorgeous, red-haired daughter (Arlene Dahl) feeds him sweetmeats by torchlight. Unfortunately, this pleasant state of affairs is menaced by a villain...
Those in the leading roles will be Donald Stewart '53, Michael Mabry '53, and Robin Ladd, a young Boston repertory actress. The play is being produced by Irving Yoskowitz '53, and the sets designed by Anthony Herrey '54. Mary Ann Goldsmith '54 is the stage manager...
Thunder in the East (Paramount). At one point in this oriental melodrama, one of the characters describes Alan Ladd as "Sir Galahad, Horatio at the bridge and Robin Hood, all wrapped up into one." The description is incomplete. Playing a rough & ready adventurer, Ladd lands in the Indian state of Gundahar with a planeload of guns and ammunition at a time when bandit forces are converging on the Maharajah's palace. The Maharajah's adviser (Charles Boyer), a Gandhi-like character, is an adamant believer in the virtues of nonresistance, an attitude which mystifies Ladd...
...short order, Ladd beards the bandit leader in his camp and has a man-to-man chat with him, helps a good many of the British colony fly out of Gundahar, and, with the help of the suddenly war-minded Boyer, cuts down the enemy with ma chine guns. In the process he also wins the affections of a blind British girl (Deborah Kerr). Thunder in the East is a flabby, farfetched thriller whose melodramatics come across as only a muted rumble on the screen...
...Senate refused to give four of their colleagues any new committee assignments and busted them to the bottom of the seniority list on their previously assigned committees. The four were Wisconsin's Bob La Follette, Iowa's Smith Brookhart, North Dakota's Lynn Frazier and Edwin Ladd. All had worked for La Foilette's election as President on the Progressive ticket, opposing Calvin Coolidge. The best guess is that Maverick Morse will be similarly corralled in 1953, i.e., will be bumped to the bottom of the Armed Services and Labor Committees, on which he already...