Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greer Garson and Brigadier General Carlos P. Romulo, Resident Commissioner of the Philippines, got the homage of honorifical Rollins College at Winter Park, Fla. Actress Garson: an honorary Doctor of Humanities; Statesman Romulo: an honorary Lit.D...
Slapstick & Surgery. In private life, many comedians are sad sacks. Not Danny. Friends who telephone his Hollywood home or his twelve-room Park Avenue apartment often hear the answering voice of a Japanese houseboy, an Italian cook, a Negro valet, an English butler or a Russian piano teacher, patiently wait for Danny to call himself to the phone...
...Jackson Park Theater could. The four well-heeled sons and daughters of Millionaire Builder Edward I. Bloom, who own and operate the theater, started suit in 1942 under the antitrust act. They claimed that they could not bid on first-run films in a free market...
...shaky structure of the movie industry's distribution system the Supreme Court of the U.S. last week laid a bundle of dynamite. By a 7-to-1 decision, the court found that nine, major producing, distributing and exhibiting companies* had conspired to prevent Chicago's Jackson Park Theater, an independent neighborhood house, from showing films until their box office potential had greatly deteriorated...
...Sailor Takes a Wife (M-G-M). In the surest-fire Hollywood tradition, a sailor (Robert Walker) meets a girl (June Allyson) in Manhattan. He sweet-talks and kisses her in a taxi in Central Park, marries her that same night in Connecticut before going back to his ship. It is all very fast, young and foolish...