Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn, Abby and Martha Brewster (played with twinkling good humor by Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, creators of the stage roles) are looked upon as just two fluttery old maids lovingly taking care of a crack-brained nephew (John Alexander) who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. Little do the good-natured local cops dream that there are twelve bodies buried in the cellar. Presently a truculent, criminally insane nephew (Raymond Massey) appears. He also has twelve murders to his credit and a crooked sawbones (Peter Lorre) to help him. A whimsical competition ensues to see who will be first...
Reported Dead. Maurice Chevalier, 54, straw-hatted, camel-lipped vaudevillian; executed by French Maquis. Son of a starving housepainter in Paris's Menilmontant slum, Chevalier first took the stage at II as a midget comic, played baggy-pants burlesque routines while he grew taller. In his teens, he replaced the dancing partner of Paris's famed Mistinguette, in World War I landed in a German prison camp, escaped as a Red Cross worker. After the war he grinned and pouted his way from French casinos to frothy U.S. cinema successes (Love Parade, The Smiling Lieutenant), thriftily saved...
...Time. This week the P.G.A. players move on to Chicago. There, at his Tam O'Shanter town & country club, Showman George S. May will stage his fourth annual golf festival. His first three made him the Billy Rose of golf impresarios-last year's total attendance was a record 67,000. This year May hopes for 90,000. He is offering the biggest prizes yet, $42,587.50 in war bonds, with general admission at $.83 (plus tax) a head...
...discussion stage is a kitchenless house. The food department, concealed in the living room, would include a refrigerator in the radio cabinet, an oven and broiler in a desk drawer. Enlarging on this idea in Woman's Home Companion, Dorothy Rosenman, chairman of the National Committee on Housing, observed; "Nonchalance will have reached the peak when, during a tea party, the hostess casually reaches into the desk drawer to baste a chicken...
Country Visitors. By far the most damaging insect, and most at home in modern civilization, is the clothes moth. It has been known to eat house insulation as well as clothes, rugs, etc. (it is destructive in the larval stage only). Best weapons against the moth are sunlight, moth balls or flakes, paradichlorobenzene. Chemists have recently developed effective new methods for permanent mothproofing of wool - for postwar...