Word: parker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this point, Three Secrets irretrievably slows down for a series of flashbacks culminating in the day the three unwed mothers placed their children for adoption at the same agency. Scripters Martin Rackin and Gina Kaus have written some juicy true-confession anecdotes to tell how woebegone Eleanor Parker was deceived by a marine; how News Reporter Patricia Neal abandoned her husband to gallivant around the world, and how temperamental Ruth Roman fatally bashed her betrayer over the head with a desk ornament. Of the men concerned in this welter of babies and pliant ladies, Frank Lovejoy is effective...
This would seem to give Cronin's the advantage, but Hathaway has pointed out that Arthur Parker Fine Foods, a new tenant of the University, has put a lot of money into the redecoration of the Dunster-Mount Auburn establishment, and it is the agency's policy to protect its tenants...
John Cronin, proprietor of the local bistro, said last night that he doesn't see how his business could be construed as being in competition with the Parker Place. "They're two entirely different businesses," Cronin said...
...Laureola was to be no more vital, it should perhaps have been trashier. There is nothing wrong with Bridie's subject. His play rather resembles Willa Gather's memorable novelette, A Lost Lady - in the lady herself, the perceptive old husband who dies (well played by Cecil Parker), the young romantic who idealizes her, the young vulgarian she sleeps with and marries. But far from capturing any of Willa Gather's lingering glow, Bridie fails to give Daphne a saving gaudiness. For one thing, he spends half his time parading a lot of open-stock minor characters...
...Lazy Way. But Dr. Zahorsky wanted to test his theories on the entire population of Crawford County (pop. 12,693). He saw his chance this month when Dr. John Charles Doubek, 26, arrived to help Dr. Parker in general practice. Dr. Doubek was one of Dr. Zahorsky's former students, trained the way the old master thinks a young country doctor should be trained...