Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing is partly delightful because Playwright Chase (a former Denver newspaperwoman whom Dorothy Parker once called "the greatest undiscovered wit in the country") has written some immensely funny lines, and in Elwood has created a very special character-droll, daffy, warmhearted, touching. It is also partly delightful because Elwood, who on a stage could easily become incredible or dismaying, is played to perfection by veteran Vaudevillian Frank Fay (as is Elwood's harassed sister by Josephine Hull). Fay not only makes Elwood a fine fellow when he is riding high; he makes him an even finer one when...
...renewed dates with P. M. girls went Mark Levy, Charlie Gould, John Lauder and Bill Schmelty this week. They report that the girls are still talking in hushed tones about smoothie Ray Wible, keeper of the Royal Entrance Parker House. He's a "solid sender" in their estimation...
...Take off my watch," he told Reeder Parker, "I want you to give it to a friend of mine, a marine, too." He painfully printed on a white cigaret package the name of a 7th Regiment private first class...
Then he gave Parker his plastic cigaret case, on which had been scratched some girls' names and addresses - "really good ones," he said. Then he died...
...bravest man I ever saw," said Corpsman Parker. "He prayed for someone else when he was dying...