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Better Half. Midway between being an old and newtimer is Helen Sobel. She is a tiny, chic, 34-year-old blonde who looks like Gertrude Lawrence, always wears blue rimmed glasses because of severe myopia. Last week she increased her lead in the race for the William E. McKenney Trophy, awarded to the year's top scorer of masters points. She won the cup in 1941 and 1942, lost it last year to her favorite bridge partner, Charles H. Goren. This year her prospects look good again-she has 194 points, 22 points ahead of her closest rival, George...
Married. Martha Knudsen, 23, youngest of Lieut. General William S. Knudsen's three daughters; and Air Forces Lieut. Paul Milton McKenney, 25, of Detroit; in Detroit...
...Sister Eileen (Columbia) was made from the play which was made from the stories by Ruth McKenney. It is a brisk sister act on one of the century's favorite comic themes-that of the two young women from the sticks, one plain and smart, the other lovely and not so smart, who try their luck in the metropolis...
...feeling for bias on which she tailors her comic flair. Newcomer Janet Blair, as Sister Eileen, is as fetching as a soda-fountain special at the end of a hot day. Male cinemaddicts will regard her as so much guileless natural force disguised in sprigged muslin. Her prototype, Eileen McKenney, was killed (with her husband, Novelist Nathaniel West) in an auto crash (TIME...
Junior Miss (adapted from Sally Benson's stories by Jerome Chodorov & Joseph Fields; produced by Max Gordon). Last season Adapters Chodorov & Fields turned Ruth McKenney's My Sister Eileen stories into a gay comedy about youth which is still running on Broadway. Last week they had turned Sally Benson's Junior Miss stories into a gay comedy about adolescence which should still be on Broadway a year from now. For its characters are kids at once harum-scarum and "nice," and it mirrors the kind of middle-class family life which huge audiences chuckle...