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...judge (Richard Bennett), out of his wits with brooding upon the injustice he fears has been done. There is Garth, who saw the robbery committed and might have saved the condemned man had he but spoken. There is the radical's tough and tortured young son Mio (Burgess Meredith), relentlessly set upon clearing his father's name...
Died. Charles Bismark Ames, 64, board chairman since 1933 of Texas Co. and its affiliate, Texas Corp.; of a heart attack; in Meredith...
With his vivacious, black-eyed wife, Elizabeth Morley Bates Cowles. sister of Actress Sally Bates, John lives in a big. old red brick house, owned successively by two late Secretaries of Agriculture (Wilson's Meredith, Harding's Wallace). "But," says John Cowles, "I don't want anyone to think my ambition is ever to be secretary of Agriculture." The Cowleses entertain often and well. Their bedded guests within a fortnight included such an assortment as Herbert Hoover. Thomas S. Lamont, Nicholas Roosevelt. Philip Ludwell Jackson, ebullient publisher of the (Portland) Oregon Journal who rarely gets...
...Burgess Meredith began his brief career on Broadway two years ago by playing the Duck, Dormouse and Tweedledee in Eva Le Gallienne's production of Alice in Wonderland. He was a reform school hellion in Little Ol' Boy and a snippy Princetonian with white buckskin shoes in She Loves Me Not. For the past ten months he has been the voice of "Red" Davis, that hero of U. S. juveniles on the Beech-Nut radio hour. Grandson of a Protestant minister of Cleveland, Ohio, Meredith was sent to Manhattan to sing in the Cathedral of St. John...
BLIND MEN CROSSING A BRIDGE-Susan Miles-Stokes ($2.50). An ambitious novel (14 years in the writing) about beauty, innocence, truth and other abstract virtues masquerading as 19th Century English characters. Dedicated to Katherine Mansfield, founded on Thomas Hardy. George Meredith and Emily Bronte, it has the flavor of a book cast up from an earlier...