Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times Topicker Simeon Strunsky, who usually does, saw the brighter side of things in the long lines waiting to buy papers at the plants. Wrote he: "It is calculated to make a newspaper man's bosom swell with pride, like Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., riding at anchor in Pinafore. . . ." Other newsmen felt as if they were talking into a dead mike...
...Navy admitted last week that six more U.S. ships had been hit off Okinawa. Five of them were destroyers, whose casualties totaled 464 officers and men: the Twiggs* and the William D. Porter had been sunk; the Ingraham, Newcomb and Leutze had been damaged. The sixth was the Liberty ship Josiah Smiling. All were hit by Kamikaze (Divine Wind) suicide planes except the Twiggs, which may have been struck by an aerial torpedo. Three British carriers and one destroyer (total casualties: 104) were also added to the list of Kamikaze victims last week...
...Jukes family, whose name is Fleagle. While he twitches around among cattle skulls in the uninviting Fleagle living room, and snags his hand in the twanging spring of a devastated sofa, Mamie Fleagle Johnson (Marjorie Main) assassinates flies with a bull whip, and her third husband, a mad scientist (Porter Hall), suggests that perhaps he'd better knock together another coffin...
...Pinafore (book & lyrics by George S. Kaufman; music by Sir Arthur Sullivan; produced by Max Gordon). Hard on the heels of Memphis Bound (TIME, June 4), which throws a monkey wrench into the music of H.M.S. Pinafore, conies Hollywood Pinafore, which runs a saw through the libretto. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., is now a timid tyrant of a producer (Victor Moore); Dick Deadeye is Dick Live-Eye (William Gaxton), a rapacious agent. Ralph Rackstraw (Gilbert Russell) is a lowlier writer than he was a tar; and Little Buttercup is Little ButterUp, a gurgling columnist named Louhedda Hopsons (Shirley Booth...
Where the original play opens in the Caribbean monarch's castle, the cinema version goes back to fill in what O'Neill left to the imagination. Covering his days as a pullman porter, his murder of a vindictive rival, his escape from a chain gang, and usurping of power on a tropical isle. "Emperor Jones" is almost over before O'Neill's story begins...