Word: parker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mother's got to work," mused Dorothy Parker, speaking of herself. "Mother hasn't written anything since the New England Primer." Author Parker, 56, rhymester-wit of the '20s (Enough Rope), more recently a scenarist (The Fan), was back in Manhattan after a long stint in Hollywood ("Two years out there and you'd go anywhere") and a three-month vacation in the tiny Mexican village of Acapantzingo, where she found the Indians magnificent and the countryside "beautiful, terrifying. . . I felt that I could live and die there, but I realized that I was doing neither...
Caged (Warner) uses the sob-and-slap technique to tell the story of a pregnant 19-year-old girl (Eleanor Parker) who is sentenced to state prison because of her part (innocent, of course) in a gas station holdup. Entering her cell block with the diffidence of a rabbit stepping into a jungle, she has trouble adjusting to the hysterics, hair-pulling and suicide that are rampant among her fellow inmates. Like other movie prisons, this one is run by a "good" warden (Agnes Moorehead), who is hamstrung by politicians, and a "bad" matron, who eats caramels and reads love...
...CRIMSON reports that Moors Hall at Radcliffe has been nominated by local architects for the Parker Medal. Please say this...
...Elis have a strong defense, too, Bill Schultz, Ken Bruce, and Dave Eldredge set up a tight shield around goalie Pete Parker...
...Beecham, the Earl's butler and a member of parliament, is played superbly by Cecil Parker. He is the man who provides the situation humor of the picture; the Earl's remarks are little gems that are usually quite irrelevant to the main flow of action. The other players are all well-cast and move gracefully out of the way when Mr. Matthews' commentaries reach a crescendo of bumbling...