Word: pemberton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight's celebrities at the much-publicized premiere include ex-Governor Robert F. Bradford '23, John Mason Brown '23, critic Brock Pemberton, and professor John H. Finley, Jr. '25, master of Eliot House...
Gloria Swanson will not be at the opening, but critics John Mason Brown '23 and Brock Pemberton and producer Richard S. Aldrich '25 will attend. Other notables expected are ex-Governor Robert F. Bradford '23, David Golding, and John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature...
...Brock Pemberton, veteran producer of Broadway plays-Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1938), Harvey (1944)-stepped before the klieg lights for a Hollywood screen test. "I don't expect anything will come of it," he grumbled afterwards. "I just did it for the experience ... I imagine that my investment of some $5 for renting [a costume] will be wasted...
...Manhattan, General Dwight D. Eisenhower got a homey tribute. Veteran Broadway Producer Brock Pemberton, who went to work for the National Draft Eisenhower League, explained: "He works on me like Lincoln...
...have heard last week that he is getting a new drinking companion.* While Frank Fay takes a seven-week summer vacation starting July 12, Hollywood's 6 ft. 3 in. Jimmy Stewart will take charge of his lines and his invisible 6 ft. 1 in. rabbit. Producer Brock Pemberton said he offered Stewart his first Broadway role in seven years "between the acts one night a couple of weeks ago. Jimmy raved about the play and I put it up to him." Day after the news broke, know-it-all Hollywood Columnist Hedda Hopper burbled: "It's almost...