Word: macgregor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father's disgust he began to dabble in occultism. Barrel-like old Madame Blavatsky warned him against removing, with his beard, the occult forces which were making a hangar of it. He joined the cabalistic Order of the Golden Dawn and played four-handed chess with Head Cabalist MacGregor Mathers, Mrs. Mathers and a ghost. It was sheer flapdoodle, but the images gave new energy to his verse. And in time this led to A Vision, one of the most astonishing books of the 20th Century, a sort of Irish-Chaldean Mein Kampf of the undermind...
What makes this film better than average is a fast-moving story and a dialogue par excellence. The advertising company of A. M. MacGregor, Inc, is made up of Miss Russell and our own Bob Benchley, who spends his working hours playing a glorified pin-ball machine in the back office. The ruling feminine touch rakes in the profits, and is hampered only by the jealous wives of baldheaded company presidents who fear with good reason the extra-business relations of Miss Russell and their husbands. Enter Fred MacMurray, who takes the wives out to dinner and makes everybody happy...
Take A Letter, Darling (Paramount) is dedicated to the proposition that anything can happen in an advertising agency. On this premise, it is not unreasonable that in the firm of Atwater (Robert Benchley) & MacGregor (Rosalind Russell) the senior partner should devote his time to pitching quoits and avoiding issues while his attractive junior does all the work...
...John MacGregor Cochrane...
...John MacGregor Cochrane...