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...Among his classmates: Admiral William Daniel Leahy; Rear Admirals William Gunnell Du Bose, Harry Ervin Yarnell, Arthur Japy Hepburn, Orin Gould Murfin, Arthur St. Clair Smith, Clarence Selby Kempff. The succession in the Asiatic Fleet has been in the hands of '97 classmates since 1937, when Murfin took over, to be followed by Yarnell, then Hart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Admiral at the Front | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...adapting Helen Jerome's dramatization of Miss Austen's novel, able Screen writer Jane Murfin's collaborator was Aldous Huxley, who went to California two years ago for eye treatments. He wrote a screen play for Garbo about Marie Curie which disappeared without a trace, supposedly because of family objections (Daughter Irene Joliot-Curie is thought to have feared that her father would be dwarfed by Garbo). Author Huxley, who has treated Hollywood with marked reserve, would like to write an original screen comedy. So far his only other product made in California is a grim, fantastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 29, 1940 | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...wrote a film version of Eve Curie's life story of her mother. Garbo was to have played it, but the story was shelved. Just completed, in collaboration with Jane Murfin, is an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Time and Craving | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...first announced) and an escort of four destroyers, sped out of San Diego at forced draft, stopped in Hawaii to refuel, arrived in the search area early this week. If the Lexington's great fleet of planes could not find the lost flyers. Rear Admiral Orin G. Murfin, coordinator of the search, planned to abandon it. Meanwhile the chance of finding the flyers alive, according to the consensus of searchers, was already down to one in a million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amelia Earhart - One in a Million | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...Vickers (RKO-Radio). Sinclair Lewis' story of a woman social worker is satisfactory material for the cinema. As adapted by Jane Murfin it briefly shows Ann Yickers (Irene Dunne) at the start of her career, coolly fencing off the admiration of a clownish confrère and a suave young barrister (Conrad Nagel). It deals more comprehensively with her wartime love affair with Captain Resnick (Bruce Cabot). After these preliminary romances and Ann's brief, unhappy experience as a prison-executive, the picture launches enthusiastically into the matter of her liaison with Judge Barney Dolphin (Walter Huston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 9, 1933 | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

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