Word: nell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aiding Harlow with the Varsity were Lyall Clark, Johnny Wood, Wes Fesler, and the newly appointed Vernon Struck. Freshman coach, Nell Stahley and Jayvee mentor, Henry Lamar were on hand...
Their first play on Broadway together was Sweet Nell of Old Drury, a salaryless Actors Equity benefit. Actor Lunt recalls it as his wife's first part as a beauty, in the role of Lady Castlemaine, remembers that they spent all their ready cash on fake jewelry to make her look more fetching. The acclaim for the new stage beauty was led by Mr. Lunt's deaf mother, Mrs. Harriet Sederholm, whose untempered voice could be heard quite plainly from the audience asking her neighbor, "Isn't she a dream...
Victoria the Great (RKO Radio). Shaking from her pretty shoulders the garish costumes of two previous cinema roles-as Nell Gwyn and Peg Woffington -Britain's beloved Anna Neagle last week traced with pomp and piety Queen Victoria's long reign. Because the film is lengthy, because its subject is the most sanctified one in British history, awed critics detoured around its rough spots with wistful allusions to Helen Hayes and Victoria Regina, vaguely said that the picture, presenting almost precisely the same episodes as did Laurence Housman's play, was perhaps about as good...
...Soon Nell came down with bags and her two dogs, Sweetpea and June. Then every-one knew she was planning to leave for good. The car roared off and stopped at Mars Turner's filling station at the edge of town. Pete Traxler was sitting in the driver's seat with two revolvers and Tindol was in back with two revolvers and a 30-30 Winchester. Just then Frank Dorris the town marshal drove by and Nell said, "There's the Law. You'd better duck." Pete, who acted drunk, roared with laughter and Mars Turner...
...good deal grimmer that night down near the Texas border when a fusillade of bullets raked the Traxler car. As officers came up they found Nell sitting in it, fainted dead away with Sweetpea and June in her lap. All night 500 officers with bloodhounds searched the Washita River bottoms. Sometime near dawn Traxler and Tindol routed out James E. Denton, a frail middle-aged oil pumper and took him and his car. Later in the morning after driving through Caddo, they seized a farmer, Fred Trimmer, and changed cars. They had several close calls driving through towns, and going...