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...cinema she went to Hollywood, was flibberti-gibbety Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind. As one of the solicitous old poisoners in Arsenic and Old Lace she played her last part; she was the fourth famed character actress to die in five weeks (the others: Dame Marie Tempest, May Robson, Edna May Oliver...
Died. Dame Marie Tempest, 78, darling of two generations of theatergoers; in London. She was the longest-reigning queen of comedy on the British stage, made her debut in 1885, was rehearsing a new show last summer when she fell ill. A musi-comedy star in the gaslit years, she switched to plays at the turn of the century, made a special type of role famed as "a Marie Tempest part." The part: a sprightly, well-bred matron, with a feline manner and a sharp tongue but a heart of gold. She lost most of her possessions when her home...
Bulky OPAdministrator Leon Henderson dislikes patronage. Balky Congress dislikes Henderson and loves patronage. Around that low-pressure area last week still blew the tempest over price control...
DESIGN IN EVIL-Rufus King-Crime Club ($2). Shanghaied Manhattan maiden on an outbound motor cruiser is in a sad plight when a psychiatrist insists that she is schizophrenic, and the subsequent stabbing of a frightened woman is charged to her account. A tempest-tossed thriller with interesting psychological overtones...
Early enthusiasts and amateurs of broadcasting took the theater as their heritage, as a matter of course. At first, being poor, they stuck to classics on which no royalties had to be paid. In 1928 pioneering NBC broadcast The Tempest-the first Shakespeare on the air. In that year it also produced classic Victorian melodramas like East Lynne...