Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...setting is a subterranean flat is Greenwich Village, the plot knows no limits, and for good measure Janet Blair is thrown into the cast with fiery Rosalind Russell to make "My Sister Eileen" a far from commonplace film. The screen version of this Fields and Chodorov comedy stage his naturally loses a bit of its original frankness at the hands of Columbia Studios, but the basic story of two would-be career girls from the midwest turned loose in a Hollywood version of old New York leaves plenty of room for the comic situations that develop...
...fixed course in narrow waters and awaiting the enemy instead of going out to attack him. . . . Their dispositions enabled the enemy to approach almost within gun range without detection. . . . Only a small part of their crews were at battle stations. . . . The admiral in command of the northern cruiser screen had left the scene in his flagship. . . . The loss was . .. unnecessary...
Except for the loquacious Durwood, who protested at this "sleeper pray," Saturday's stalwarts had little to say, and even Forte who withstood the attentions of screen star Constance Moore last spring at a House dance, was at a loss for words. Miss Edgerton-Bird's questions, most of which dealt with the player's thoughts during vital plays, drew shy responses, and Russ Stannard, toughest of the Crimson linemen, lost his voice entirely...
...Flynn's face on the screen...
Died. Mary Robison ("May Robson"), 84, veteran character actress, "dowager queen" of the screen and stage; in Beverly Hills. A small, sweet-faced woman with a diamond glint in her eye, she made her theatrical debut in Brooklyn in 1884, spent the rest of her life playing pathetic slaveys, sly grandmothers, iron-willed matriarchs, frowsy housewives and alcoholic old harridans. She reached stardom on the stage (in The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary) when she was 49, reached Hollywood stardom (in Lady jor a Day) when she was 75. Two disclosures followed her death: she was six years older than...