Word: mayfairisms
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...Four Jills and a Jeep" with Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye, Mitzi Mayfair, John Harvey, Dick Haymes, and Jimmy Dorsey is the film being shown this weekend for the Naval Training Schools at the Music Hall. The story is based upon the entertainment tour of the four girls overseas at various camps in North Africa and England. Time schedule: Friday at 1800, Saturday and Sunday at 1800 and 2030 for the Naval Training Schools. The staff of the schools is invited to a special showing Friday at 2030. Films are not continuous...
Popcorn and Ping-Pong. Two years later, Greer Garson was one of the most promising young British actresses of her generation. She shared a handsome flat with her handsome mother in brightest Mayfair. She swapped fancy conversational popcorn with Bernard Shaw, was friend, colleague and mental ping-pong partner of people like Noel Coward, Sylvia Thompson, Laurence Olivier, Margaret Webster. In two years, during which she had only two weeks' vacation, she worked in no fewer than eight plays. Nearly all of them were flops. But Miss Garson was never a flop. She had ability. She had presence...
...John of Jerusalem, a Governor of Guy's Hospital, president of the Dramatists' Club, one of the three finest toxophilists (bow-shots) in England, a member of the Royal Company of Archers. For the duration he is living in a tiny London flat. His swank Mayfair house, he explains, is inhabited by "40 American lady warriors...
Best bit: C. Aubrey Smith, as a Mayfair clergyman, cheerfully commenting on the death of a rich old lady who has left him the jackpot: "Very sad, very...
...landlord (silkily played by Cinemactor Henry Daniell) is the life of the piece, and Playwright Thompson handles him with a certain sophistication. But by the same token, he mishandles him. Putting Mayfair ahead of murder, he turns the landlord into a sort of Noel-Cowardish fancy talker, and the fancy talk sinks the play. It becomes tiresome in itself, lowers the tension, and worst of all, gives the audience time to spot what is coming next...