Word: miller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ronald Colman owes his screen career-or its beginning, anyhow-to the quick judgment of another movie veteran, Director Henry King. King spotted Colman on Broadway in 1922 (supporting Ruth Chatterton and Henry Miller in La Tendresse), and gave him the male lead opposite Lillian Gish in The White Sister (1923). Since Miss Gish became a nun in the picture, all Colman could do was look frustrated, but he did that so handsomely that his movie career was assured. During the middle and late '20s he and the late John Gilbert ran neck & neck as Hollywood's foremost...
Radio station WCOP will broadcast an Ann Arbor-recorded interview between Boston Globe correspondent Vern Miller '42 and Coach Valpey tonight at 6 o'clock...
...teams were survivors of elimination's held last Monday. They are Alan Bork '47 and Thomas McFarland '47, consistently high due in local play: John Small '51 and Andrew L. Kaufman '51; James B. Biederman '46 and Paul A. Miller '46; and Frank H. Carber, Jr. '49 and Wesley S. Alpert...
...children of World War I's "lost generation," themselves the generation of World War II, may be too harried to be happy. But they like to think of themselves as too unsentimental to get lost. In his second novel, Merle Miller (29) attempts an aftermath-of-war pastiche of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, winds up with an embarrassing imitation of his master's style and a case history of three neurotic young men whose problems would be much the same with or without...
...York after their discharge from the Army in 1945. They drink too much, stage noisy parties and most of the women they know wear round heels. Only Ted is a combat veteran. Lew, a public relations officer, and Peter, a radio scripter, fought the war with typewriters (Miller was a Yank editor). Ted, an unstable and unhappy rich kid, commits suicide; Lew gets a dose of anti-Semitism from the girl he loves and goes home to California; Peter can get any woman into bed but the one he cares for, hates his job on a newsmagazine (Miller once worked...