Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, on the green turf of Baltimore's Babe Ruth Stadium, Notre Dame's old reliable T-formation worked so well against Navy that the U-formation was never used. In fact, Leahy's big problem was to keep down the score. In the fourth quarter, he pulled out his first-stringers, forbade further use of the forward pass, and limited his second-stringers to a few elemental plays. Final score...
...Leading Lady (by Ruth Gordon; produced by Victor Samrock & William Fields) was a turn-of-the-century fandango about theater people that Ruth Gordon, playwright, wrote for Ruth Gordon, actress. Trying mainly for glamor, it traded chiefly in hokum-and pretty tarnished hokum at that. Miss Gordon herself was so very much of a Heroine that she was not much of a help...
...Babe Ruth Story (Allied Artists...
...cinemusical. Rachel, which opened late in the month and netted top grosses for the last two weeks, is a pretty good historical drama whose star, Robert Mitchum, was recently arrested in a marijuana scandal. The critics were lukewarm to Good Sam, but it flourished, regardless. The Babe Ruth Story was thoroughly panned, but it profited from the wide public interest in Ruth's death. Sorry, Wrong Number and Rope, greeted with critics' cheers, rated ninth and eleventh...
Ford Theater (Sun. 7:30 p.m., CBS Television). Raymond Massey and Eva Le Gallienne in Ruth Gordon's Years...