Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio's Henry Morgan, who last month accused his straw-blonde wife Isobel of not only being a bad cook and a Communist but of lacking a sense of humor, publicly gasped with horror at himself after they reached an "understanding" in Manhattan. (She dropped her suit for $750-a-week support.) "I am ashamed," said he. "I guess I just don't have much sense. If I did, I'd probably be in another line of work. I'd quit radio and go straight, or something...
...memorable Hamlet, in modern dress) as the corrupt, tormented usurper; or of Norman Wooland as a gentle, modest, steadfast and wise Horatio. Stanley Holloway, as the Gravedigger, is blessedly out-of-tradition;* he seemed to have learned his lines from the earth itself, not from "Shakespearean" pseudo-rustics. Terence Morgan, as Laertes, is the quintessence of an old aristocrat's fine, somewhat spoiled son. For once, Queen Gertrude is young enough, and beautiful enough, to explain all the excitement she generates in the Ghost, his murderer and her son. Indeed, Eileen Herlie, who is only 27, has some trouble...
Directors George Whitney and Harry Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co. also thought they could skip the "routine meeting." Though Morgan interests had helped put Avery in as Ward's chairman 17 years ago, Whitney and Davison are now reportedly pro-Norton. When the meeting was finally held, it turned out to be anything but routine-and still another Norton man, Director Lawrence Appley, was among those missing...
...This Is New York. A deftly daffy screen version of Ring Lardner's The Big Town, with radio's Henry Morgan (TIME...
...This Is New York. A deftly daffy screen version of Ring Lardner's The Big Town, with radio's Henry Morgan (TIME...