Word: reginald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wallflower (by Mary Orr and Reginald Denham; produced by Meyer Davis) turns a Tarkington fable about two teenage stepsisters into a smoking-car joke. During a raid on a roadhouse, one of the sisters and one of her sister's discarded boy friends are found in an upstairs room. Eventually, of course, it turns out that people had very ribald imaginations...
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (20th Century-Fox) sumptuously swaggers into Manhattan's Technicolored past (circa 1880) in which Miss Grable plays a music-hall queen from London named Madeleine Marlowe. Madeleine's betrothal to a Duke (Reginald Gardner) is mucked up by cover articles in the Police Gazette which unmask her as the onetime toast of Brooklyn Burlesque, Rosie O'Grady. Rosie wreaks vengeance upon Police Gazette Journalist Sam McGee (Robert Young) by telling the rest of the press that he has wooed her for her fortune. She gets him fired. Journalist McGee gallantly retaliates...
Robert Young's limp sideburns evoke the period as sharply as the best of the sets. Adolphe Menjou and Reginald Gardner are atmospheric. The fact that Cinemactress Grable's histrionic legs are here shrouded in fancy skirts may sadden her admirers. But she makes up for that in one high-stepping number which has something of the shock value that might result from watching grandma, in the bloom of her youth, chuck an old rip under the chin with the toe-point of her slipper...
...Died. Reginald McKenna, 80, onetime Chancellor of Britain's Exchequer, onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, since 1919 chairman of London's Midland (largest) Bank; in London.' As First Lord of the Admiralty (1908-11) he battled for British naval expansion against President of the Board of Trade Winston Churchill-who succeeded him in the naval post in time for World...
Churchill had barely arrived in Memorial Hall when the formal academic procession, led by Dr. Reginald Fitz '06. University Marshal, began to file into Sanders Theatre...