Word: tarleton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parts for the most part are handled adequately. Kilty is excellent as old Tarleton. He says, "In the theater of life everyone is amused but the actor," and then goes to "contemplate his destiny...
...Misalliance" is Shaw late in his first period. He is less concerned with dramatic plots than with what he has to say. Four characters present contrasting points of view: John Tarleton Sr. (Jerry Kilty), a prosperous underwear manufacturer and a representative of the middle class, would revolt against his day to day life for one of ideas; his son (Miles Morgan), a middle class moralist, "likes to know where he is;" daughter Hypatia (Helen Mareey) fights against her middle class associates who sit around and "discuss whether what other people say is right;" and Lord Summerhays (Thayer David) represents traditional...
...jammed, glittering Florida resorts. To Cartoonist Ham Fisher, creator of Joe Palooka, Christmas in Miami Beach would be sun-kissed and expensive. He would sleep late in his Roney Plaza room, golf at the swank La Gorce Country Club, be host at an eggnog party at the Lord Tarleton Hotel. In the evening he would invite a crowd of cronies to a dinner party at the Copacabana Club...
...Club Ha-Ha. In the casinos at Ben Marden's Colonial Inn, the Sunny Isles Club, the Royal Palm, gamblers crowded the roulette and dice tables. On the ocean side, Glamor Row flung its facade of stucco and neon at the sky and the sea: the new Lord Tarleton, the Versailles, the older Roney Plaza, many another hostelry where the cheaper rooms went...
Britisher Byron Charles Tate, a member of the Griswold-Harkness Expedition (1934-35) to the East Indies, sued Explorer Lawrence Tarleton Knutsford Griswold for $100,000 for defamation of character because of an incident in Griswold's book, Tombs, Travel and Trouble. Grounds: Tate never attempted to seduce the wife of a headhunter...