Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brother Sganarelle and childish-voiced June Walker as his ward who is advised to "serve his meals all dank and sultry, and in between commit adultery" cannot make much of Moliere's empty comedy of words and cardboard characterizations. Plot: June Walker, in love with a young suitor (Michael Bartlett) whom Osgood Perkins' surveillance has kept from meeting her, pretends to love Perkins. She sends him to berate the suitor for his attentions, thus establishing communication with the suitor. The communication becomes more complete until the two young people are bedded, then married. To point the moral...
...title poem, like many a Jeffers narrative, starts off in realistic-novel style, plods up into high but hellish places where the wind blows too strong for realism. On a drunken picnic at the seashore Lance caught his brother Michael making love to his wife Fayne: in an instant he had killed Michael. Next instant he regretted it: and if quick-witted Fayne had not made it seem an accident, the murder had been out. To keep the truth from killing his mother, and to save Lance. Fayne persuaded him not to confess what he had done. But his atonement...
Later that night the same ship was running up the Hudson River off Weehawken, N. J. Customs Inspector Michael Guilfoyle was not suspicious of her but since he had just been ordered to watch every ship closely, he hailed her. "We're bound for Albany," the skipper replied. "We can't stop in this tide." The inspector noted the name on her bow, Texas Ranger. He recognized her cut and markings as familiar, let her go through...
...Wilderness! is the name of the Guild's play. Its author is Eugene Gladstone O'Neill. Not only is it the first comedy sombre Playwright O'Neill has ever written, it is the first play that George Michael Cohan ever acted in (barring benefit performances) which he did not write himself...
...George Michael Cohan need grudge no man his artistic output. In his autobiography he scores himself 31 original plays, 14 collaborations, 500 songs ("conservatively"). "It's been a great life," he adds...