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Another Part of the Forest (Universal-International) is Lillian Hellman's study of the five Little Foxes and how they grew; the Hubbard family is seen in 1880, 20 years before The Little Foxes. They are a horrifying image of the newborn New South: a self-made, egomaniacal father (Fredric March); a deeply pious, almost mindless mother (March's wife Florence Eldridge); a mild-seeming, Machiavellian son (Edmond O'Brien); a whining, fatuous son (Dan Duryea); a diamond-hard daughter (Ann Blyth). Night & day they connive against each other; during any chance breathing spell they work...
Unlike the great cigar-puffing Jockey Tod Sloan, who went in for monocles, valets and lavish entertainment (Tod once threw a $25,000 party for Actress Lillian Russell), Arcaro believes in the durable dollar. His chief extravagance is clothes; he owns 40 suits, mostly conservative greys and blues. He drives a 1947 Cadillac, reads FORTUNE to keep hep on industry, and invests in such blue-chip stocks as A.T. & T. He likes Scotch, but mostly on Saturday nights. He knows what happened to some of his predecessors...
...newly elected leaders of the class of '51 are: Sadja A. Stokowski, President; Barbara J. Fitzgerald, Vice-President; Helen B. Bernstein, Secretary; Lillian D. Merrill, Treasurer; and Patricia Connor and Joan M. Bresnahan, Student Council Representatives...
Ronald Colman owes his screen career-or its beginning, anyhow-to the quick judgment of another movie veteran, Director Henry King. King spotted Colman on Broadway in 1922 (supporting Ruth Chatterton and Henry Miller in La Tendresse), and gave him the male lead opposite Lillian Gish in The White Sister (1923). Since Miss Gish became a nun in the picture, all Colman could do was look frustrated, but he did that so handsomely that his movie career was assured. During the middle and late '20s he and the late John Gilbert ran neck & neck as Hollywood's foremost...
...Burt McGuire Jr., Manhattan playboy, for becoming the fifth husband of Lillian Roth, former Ziegfeld star and subject of articles on how she conquered alcohol...