Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sitting on a piano at a party for Loyalist Spain in Washington, famed Writer & Wit Dorothy Parker nervously swore off humor: "I don't see how you can help being unhappy now. The humorist has never been happy, anyhow. Today he's whistling past worse graveyards to worse tunes. . . . If you had seen what I saw in Spain, you'd be serious too. And you'd be up on this piano, trying to help those people...
...other five are Vannevar Bush, President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, former vice-president and Dean of Engineering at M.I.T.; John P. Higgins '17, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts; Franklin E. Parker, Jr. '18, President of the American Arbitration Association and Director of the New York Legal Aid Society; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. '24, Senator from Massachusetts; Thomas E. Eliot '28, former General Counsel of the Social Security Board...
Trade Winds is a pleasant surprise, but not as a travelogue. By far the best things about the picture are 1) superbly funny dialogue by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell and Frank R. Adams and 2) pleasant performances by Fredric March and Joan Bennett, who, as a brunette, looks like Hedy Lamarr. To work his material into the body of the picture, which was made in the United Artists studio, Director Tay Garnett fell back on the reliable motif of the chase: assigned to find a girl wanted by the San Francisco police, Detective Sam Wye follows her to Hawaii, catches...
...best to be said for Director Garnett's travel contributions is that, sprinkled through the narrative along with the antics of a highly entertaining set of minor characters, they serve to punctuate Miss Parker's jokes. Best minor part: Ralph Bellamy-who impersonated Christ in Destination Unknown, also directed by Tay Garnett-as Sam Wye's over-diligent assistant...
...Baker's famed 47 Workshop, went from there to Broadway with his successful Harvard Prize Play, You and I. Married and the father of two young sons, Barry for years lived abroad, now lives in Florida. His good friends include such well-known sophisticates as Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Donald Ogden Stewart. This fall Barry published his first novel, War in Heaven- Here Come the Clowns in fiction form...