Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London audiences and critics, pinned to hard pews without intermission for an hour and a half, tended to be cool or puzzled, or both. Churchmen tended to be pleased at the fresh evidence of a partnership between godliness and grease paint. Said St. Thomas's vicar, the Rev. Patrick McLaughlin: "A first-class play by a first class author is worth more than a thousand sermons-even mine. Religion ought to be a clue to living. The old methods are no good...
...partnership with Ernest M. Wheeler, who put up the money, she left Wellesley to take over Dana Hall, and has since expanded that institution to include Pine Manor and Tenacre, a school for children from...
...Washington deals. Among them was arranging a $200,000 RFC loan for a Philadelphia paper concern, picking up a $10,000 fee for promising to help a Mississippian sell a submachine gun to Army Ordnance, and helping a "client" who wanted to buy surplus war property by forming a partnership and splitting a $25,000 fee. The fee was split with Herschel Young, a fellow Missourian who was an employee of the War Assets Administration and a brother-in-law of Mrs. Merl Young, the ex-White House stenographer, who got the famous pastel mink coat...
...Dailey) and an expert "inside man" (Sam Jaffe) into a manufacturing partnership in the $10.95 dress line, cons her sister into putting up the money for her stake. Eager to climb the garment center escalator from dresses to frocks to gowns, she double-crosses Dailey by making a tricky deal with an unctuous department-store tycoon (George Sanders). But when the time comes to leave her partners bankrupt and give Sanders his price (payable in his bachelor quarters), the tigress melts into a woman with a weakness for long-suffering Salesman Dailey...
...first movie from Producer Charles (Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend) Brackett since Paramount split his partnership with Billy Wilder, The Mating Season is a disappointment. Among its contrivances, it tries to palm off Lund as a sympathetic character, an effort that fails despite the script's broad, last-minute gestures. Star Ritter gets most of her help from Actress Hopkins' expert playing of a bitchy lady of quality. There is also a surprisingly animated performance by Gene Tierney...