Word: moorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago when Lillian Gish played Camille. Last summer an audience in 1890 costume watched The Merry Widow. For last week's performance Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones selected Othello, persuaded Walter Huston to take a six-week vacation from Dodsworth in Manhattan to appear as the Moor with Nan Sunderland (Mrs. Huston) as Desdemona...
...distributors last week were told that "the mere thought of the monster seeking a bride makes £ showman's fingers fairly itch." A classic with catholic tastes, Carl Laemmle Jr. Universal's birdlike little production chief last week also promised his patrons Show Boat, a series of shorts showing Moor Mullins and a new picture by Damon Runyan called Princess O'Hara...
...Moor Born (by Dan Totheroh; George Bushar & John Tuerk, producers). The success of Katharine Cornell in The Barretts of Wimpole Street encouraged at least two other playwrights to turn their hands to theatrical biographies of 19th Century lady authors. A year ago there was talk of producing in the U. S. Clemence Dane's Wild Decembers, a study of the Bronte's acclaimed in London. This possibility becomes more remote now that Playwright Totheroh (Distant Drums) has gotten his own story of the three weird sisters of Haworth on the boards. There would be no use selecting...
Convert Sweeney soon became the steward of Calvary House, a mission ably run by Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, rector of Manhattan's Calvary Episcopal Church and No. 1 U. S. Group leader. Later he went as butler to Mrs. Limburg, joining with her once a week in "quiet time" (communion with...
...triad formation Squadron 10-F hummed out through the Golden Gate, bent a great circle course over six patrol boats anchored at 300 mi. intervals across the Pacific. Next morning the commanding officer of the naval station at Pearl Harbor received a radio message: "REQUEST PERMISSION TO LAND AND MOOR AT ASSIGNED BEACH. . . . MCGINNIS." At noon, just 24 hr. after leaving San Francisco, the squadron roared over Diamond Head and Waikiki to a pretty landing on Pearl Harbor and a thunderous welcome from the proud folk of happy Honolulu. There was little for the officers to report. All had gone...