Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign Correspondent (United Artists) will confuse cinemaddicts who may have heard that it began as a filming of Vincent Sheean's Personal History. Producer Walter Wanger paid Sheean $10,000 for his thoughtful book, set two writers to adapting it, dropped the result in his wastebasket. Then he hired John Howard Lawson to write a new script on the adventures of a U. S. newspaperman in Spain and Germany, engaged Warner's star director, William Dieterle (Pasteur, Zola). Before the picture got into production, the Spanish War was over. Wanger paid Dieterle $50,000, started over again with...
Three weeks ago CBS Newschief Paul White and CBS European Director Ed Murrow started arranging by cable and short-wave conference to present from England a show called London After Dark. Working with BBC, Murrow lined up nine commentators, including Vincent Sheean and J. B. Priestley, got them spotted with portable mikes all over Lon don. Last week the program was heard in the U. S. Unexpected was the cooperation of Adolf Hitler, whose bombers flew over London, but dropped no bombs...
Love, Klieg-lighted and aromatic, came to television last week. In Los Angeles, over the Don Lee video network, 26-year-old William Vincent Hazen took Marian Padelford, 19, to be his lawful wedded wife. A dental technician, Bridegroom Hazen planned to celebrate his marriage vows with a script of his own devising. It included such dialogue as "My future plans are of educating the public in the immense perennial humanitarian program that the dental profession has mapped out for those who will but come to its portals. All of which bounteously builds up to better dentistry for better living...
...dark-skinned Somali Arabs and officered by Britons. Total with reserves: about 560 men. Beside these stood another 560 native mounted police with rifles, machine guns, British officers. Their leader was Lieut. Colonel Arthur Reginald Chater, oldtime desert fighter. Governor and Commander in Chief of the protectorate is Vincent Goncalves Glenday, 49, an Oxonian sportsman careerist in Britain's colonial service...
...final chapter, Second March, Critic Brooks forecasts a second flowering of New England. He sees its seeds in the life and works of late great Poetess Amy Lowell, Conrad Aiken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eugene O'Neill, and especially Robert Frost, whose function, thinks Critic Brooks, is "to mediate between New England and the mind of the rest of the nation." This chapter reads like an afterthought. Critic Brooks's task was finished before he wrote it. His task was to create an intellectual tradition that could feed the newly emerging U. S. cultural nationalism...