Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloomily aware of the failure of other young comedians (e.g., Danny Thomas, Jack Paar, Henry Morgan, Danny Kaye) who have tried to buck radio's Old Guard, Shriner feels that he has a few advantages: he can pre-test his radio gags from the stage of Inside U.S.A., and his program has been sponsored from the start, which allows him to hire a topflight script "collaborator." Though he has a complicated broadcast and rebroadcast time schedule (CBS, 5:45 p.m. E.S.T., from New York), Shriner also takes heart from the fact that his Hooperating, which had been a modest...
Unfaithfully Yours (20th Century-Fox) was written, produced and directed by Preston Sturges, whose films have often been noted for novelty and freshness (Hail the Conquering Hero) as well as for questionable taste (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek). This one is a brilliant idea for a two-reel comedy dragged out for nearly five reels...
Alexander Dumas would smile at his characters in this gem: they are all as he would have them, exceptionally good or horrendously evil. Vincent Price as Richelieu is oily and sinister, with just a dash of greed. Frank Morgan as Louis XIII is weak and vacillating. The heroine is June Allyson, who is totally incapable of portraying anyone not pure and naive. Lana Turner plays Lady de Winter, the cruel, unscrupulous femme fatale; she is grotesquely miscast, but retains a certain innate charm...
Professor Morgan calls his part of the book "The Legacy of the Law: Doubt." He recounts the sequence of events of the crime in so far as they are definitely known, and then discusses every conceivable legal angle of the case, ranging from the circumstances of the first arrests to the desperate and unsuccessful attempts to have the case brought before a Federal court as a last resort. He describes the trials, the controversial character of Judge Webster Thayer, the jury and the unorthodox way in which it was chosen, the witnesses and their testimony, and the involved question...
Professor Morgan treats his highly technical subject in an eminently readable fashion. He makes the course of the trials, the many important personalities involved in the case, and the abstract legal problems entirely clear to the reader without ever losing his dignified and scientific tone...