Word: russel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouce have come up with a new and an unusual variety of theatrical entertainment in "The Hasty Heart." The play lacks the appealing sentimentality of "Life With Father"; it does not have the grotesque attraction of "Arsenic and Old Lace"; but "The Hasty Heart" strikes at deeper human election than have any of the famous partners' former productions...
Father Day, rambunctious kingpin of Broadway's five-year-young Life with Father, fetched a record price to splutter in Technicolor for Warner Bros. Warners will give the owners (Mrs. Clarence Day, Producer Oscar Serlin, Dramatists Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse) $500,000 down and half the gross, cannot release Father before 1947, must obey the owners' Ten Commandments (sternest commandment: thou shalt not film any script of which we disapprove...
...filial boast went round; it fell as a challenge on one pair of American ears. U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Russel, who claimed to have been quite a jumper at Waukesha (Wis.) High School, made several trial runs, leaped-and landed on the sixth step. Vince Dunne of the Royal Canadian Navy could get no higher than the fifth. One after another the Cambridge varsity jumpers flung themselves at the steps. The Bishop's record stood...
...want to be in on the show. I've never suggested a star, walk-on or cashier-fortunately, none of my relatives ever hankered to be any of the three." Nearest Cullman comes to being a nuisance is in phoning theater people early in the morning. "Listen, Cullman!" Russel Crouse once screamed into the receiver, "I got into this show business because I like to sleep late...
Last week he took a flyer of his own in theater operating. With Playwright Russel Crouse, Actor Elliott Nugent and others, he bought a Broadway theater (the Hudson)-"so we needn't be subject to certain guys' whims and fancies." Naturally he also bought into the first show which he hopes will be produced there, a fall item for Boris Karloff being written by Lindsay and Crouse...