Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife Vivien Leigh (who is also panicking London in her husband's rather febrile production of The Skin of Our Teeth) will go to California. Their public explanation of the trip: Olivier wants his wife, who has only recently recovered from tuberculosis, to spend the winter in a mild climate. The likely outcome, considering the modest emoluments of stage glory: one or both will make a movie...
...trouble. The logical love interest for a sweetened-up biography was Jolson's third wife, Ruby Keeler, ex-cinemactress and Ziegfeld star who long since divorced him, remarried and retired from show business. Skolsky admits, "It was tough. We had to please Al, Ruby and ourselves. In a mild way, we tried to psychoanalyze Al and Ruby . . . and make ourselves believe it could have happened." Ruby was cooperative, accepted $25,000 but insisted that her name be kept...
Before quitting New York the delegation elected Russell Austin, a tall mild-mannered delegate from the University of Chicago, as chairman. A veteran of World War II, he was shot up badly in the Italian campaign, and left permanently disabled. But it was his quiet capable manner of bringing about compromise whenever there seemed to be a split which earned him the right to speak as head of the delegation. We never found reason during the strain of the period which followed to regret our choice...
...bishops' palms were no tougher than the deputies'. In two hours of debate they passed the lower-house resolution with but one mild amendment (to ask the 1948 Lambeth Conference for "advice & counsel" instead of a new commission...
...Their Lives (Universal) also features a big, old tree which is inhabited by spirits. This time the spirits are the unhappy ghosts of departed mortals. The movie would be of interest to no one but fans of Comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, except that it underscores a mild Hollywood trend toward fantasy. (In pictures soon to be released, such diverse types as Keenan Wynn and Paul Muni also play ghosts...