Word: turney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Turney's drama shows how Leda Ferroni, the refugee, is led to murder and finally to total insanity in her unscrupulous struggle to keep her past a secret and to make her future happy. The key to this happiness is the possession of a baby, but psychologically Ferroni is unable to have her own. So she goes about winning the affection of the two little girls while posing as a friend of the family. It is all quite effective, and the secret room itself, whether it is intended as a symbol of Miss Ferroni's hidden past...
...Edmund Turney Allen had survived many a forced landing and some crashes in a quarter century. But he had always brought his defective ship in, had reported in carefully scientific terms what had happened and why. He had first-flown at least 80 types of aircraft, and, because he was also a research engineer, he was always able to find and report the changes that must be made to make an airplane safe and efficient...
Barrymore's burlesque of himself proved more bumpy than bumptious, his ad libs flabbier than flip. But he did let go a few Royal Family burps, and enough offside lines to indicate that this Jerry Horwin-Catherine Turney farce might yet be "good theatre," with old John really strutting his stuff...