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...Elissa Landi advocated that dramatic critics "temper their honesty" to help the theater's business...
...columnists via a program called Wings For America. Using the Orson Welles-Martian Invasion technique, the Tribune-MBS aerial brain storm concerns itself with the patriotic struggles of a mythical Tribune newshen named Lorna Carroll to overthrow a bunch of Putschers calling themselves the "Advance Front." With solemn Elissa Landi playing Lorna, dapper Phillips Holmes as an imaginary MBS commentator, the first installment of Wings For America, which is due to run serially for the next nine weeks, indicated that before the show's run had ended, it would be firmly established as the dizziest radio drama ever confected...
...French Without Tears (Dennis, Mass.); Jean Muir in Much Ado About Nothing, High Tor (Schenectady and Suffern, N. Y.); Mary Brian in Honey (Dennis, Mass.) ; Douglass Montgomery in Berkeley Square (Cedarhurst, L. I.); Madge Evans in Stage Door (Suffern, N. Y.); Jane Wyatt (Coquette, Stage Door, Biography) and Elissa Landi (The Lady Has a Heart) at various resorts...
...Ladislaus Bus-Fekete; adapted by Edward Roberts; Rufus Phillips & Watson Barratt. producers). On the nearly sure-fire theme of The Admirable Crichton-the butler who turns out to be a better man than the rest of them-a competent cast headed by beautiful Vincent Price and lissome Elissa Landi amble through a pleasant play that occasionally skitters along the edge of being a tour de farce. Actor Price is the same restrained, terribly patient young man that he was as Albert in Victoria Regina...
...that in this admirably efficient and self-effacing young man he has the perfect servant. What is the Mariassy family's dismay to discover that Jean has been elected to Parliament as a Socialist deputy. The first shock over, Count Mariassy is rather tickled, but his daughter (Elissa Landi) is furious. Jean continues to serve as loyal valet, but things can never be the same again. As Elissa Landi bitterly remarks: "At home Jean ties father's cravat, and in Parliament he tries to cut his throat." Jean's double job is too much for him: Count...