Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also killed on the Italian front: Correspondent Cyril Bewley of Lord Kemsley's chain of British papers; Roderick MacDonald of the Sydney Morning Herald and London News Chronicle. Seriously wounded: Reuters' Henry Buckley...
...industrialist (George Coulouris), a charwoman (Sara Allgood), a pair of cultivated suicides (Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker). Nearly all the parts are well played, though as individuals and as moral and social symbols, the characters seem over-genteel, stagily conceived, dated. But Edmund Gwenn is a competently ghostly steward, Sydney Greenstreet a subtly alarming embodiment of the Last Judgment. And compared with recent bows to the Beyond-a .cheerful Chiclet like A Guy Named Joe, a quiet sniffle over the aspidistras like Happy Land, a jumbo box of mentholated Kleenex like Tender Comrade-this older mixed metaphor of death seems...
...been to the U.S. before, almost all were young (average age: 20), some had small babies (there were 14 in all). Very few of them had seen their husbands for many a month. Said blue-eyed, self-assured Mavis, who met her signalman husband Edward Austin Humphreys at a Sydney zoo more than two years ago: "You know I'm forgetting how he looks and how he talks...
...Just Asked Me to Dance." Brown-eyed Constance Clement, a onetime cake counter clerk, met her husband Luis, a chief petty officer, at the Trocadero dance hall in Sydney a year and a half ago. "He just asked me to dance and I kept dancing with him all night," she explained. Her destination: Humboldt, Neb. where her father-in-law is a contractor. She was much relieved about what her three sisters-in-law would be like after she met a "lovely" Nebraska girl who was working at the Western Union desk of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel...
...Brothers Warner hit on a good thing when they teamed up Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet in the "Maltese Falcon," and they've used the squad in varying combinations ever since, most recently in "Passage to Marseille." The latest vehicle ranks somewhere below the "Maltese Falcon," and on a par with "Across the Pacific...