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...Hello. Carrying a spear, working in tent shows, Shakespeare, burlesque, he found his feet in the '20s as a director (Dulcy, Gay Divorce), founded his fortune in the '30s as a playwright (She Loves Me Not). Eighteen years ago he married delicate, blond Dorothy Stickney (the original Mother in Life With Father), whom a wag once described as a "butterfly with teeth...
...General Motors' scholarly Economist Rufus Stickney Tucker: $125,000,000,000; 53.5 million jobs...
...youth included being head man in a tent show, acting in Shakespeare and burlesque. In the early '20s he turned director (Dulcy, To the Ladies); in the early '30s he clicked as an author with She Loves Me Not. In between he married petite, blonde Actress Dorothy Stickney (Mother in Life With Father...
Ingrate. In Baxter State Park, Me., Wild Life Protector Joseph Stickney complained that, though a crew was going through the forest tacking up No Hunting signs, a preposterous bear followed along, tore them all down...
Father (Howard Lindsay) is a rigid reactionary who, to get his own way, turns the worst kind of anarchist. With all the convincing changeability of the weather, he blusters and blows and comes away emptyhanded, while his Vinnie (Dorothy Stickney) scoops up the prizes. Given to impulses and to oldfashioned, faintly apoplectic swearing, Father understands very little of the world, and nothing at all of his wife. He would certainly not understand, for example, why for stage reasons his family is shown, in the play, eating breakfast in the living room. "My God, Vinnie!" he would howl, "a gentleman eats...