Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gough) whom she holds responsible for the death of her father. While trying to beat him at his own game, she succeeds in developing oil wells by the dozen, and presently finds that her lust for vengeance has turned into a lust for money and power. Meanwhile, her emotional life develops a three-way split between her loyalty to a rich Indian suitor (Pedro Armendariz), her love for her young geologist partner (Robert Preston), and her new-found infatuation for Oilman Gough...
...Steps Out (RKO Radio) is a smug little film with a dubious message. Escapism, it preaches-some 90 million U.S. moviegoers notwithstanding - does not pay. To prove its point it describes the case of a middle-aged Boston judge (Alexander Knox) who decides one day to "run for his life." Behind him he leaves the responsibilities of his office, a selfish wife and daughter, and the threat of stomach ulcers...
Once more their patience has been rewarded-but not so amusingly this time. Christopher Morley's new novel, The Man Who Made Friends With Himself, is a long epigram-studded footnote on the life of Richard Tolman, a literary agent who commutes and ruminates between his Long Island home and his Manhattan office. His story is a memoir found after his death...
...meet his neighbors, the Cullens, for dinner at the Grillparzer, they stopped at Richard's office to open That Man's manuscript-only to find that it contained a stack of blank paper with a seven-word title. Zoe was worried when Richard murmured, "So all my life is blank pages," but they went...
Grillparzer on schedule. During dinner there, a fire broke out in the kitchen and spread through the imitation Wienerwald. In trying to rescue Sharpy Cullen from the men's room, Richard perished in the fire, too rapidly to round out his life with one last epigram but not rapidly enough to prevent his getting the details of all but his last gasp into the memoirs-presumably by some sort of magic...