Word: walrusness
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Author Gilpatric, whose long series of Saturday. Evening Post short stories about the walrus-mustached, Scotch-drinking Mr. Glencannon have entertained U.S. readers for more than two decades, learned from the doctor that the tumor was malignant. Then, police said, he got out a .32-caliber pistol, shot and killed her, then killed himself...
Robert Hutton is suitably obnoxious as the scheming young American heir, Patricia Roc is beautiful as his wife, and Jean Wallace is striking as his--ah--mistress. Laughton does no acting in the movie; he is Maigret in every characteristic--from the nervous twitch of his pipe to the walrus moustache that guards his mouth from all liquors save beer...
...Walrus is a column which presents an informal, personal view of various activities that is impossible to present under the restrictions of other columns or news stories...
...Circus Horse. Sharp at 8:45 p.m., his shoe-button eyes twinkling and his walrus mustache abristle, Monteux bounced in the front door. He dodged around a full-sized replica of a cable car, wheeled down the main aisle between two rows of beaming debutantes. The San Francisco Chronicle's Critic Alfred Frankenstein reported he "marched embar-rassedly." Said wife Doris Monteux, 54, who does most of Pierre's talking: "Embarrassedly, my eye . . . He's just like an old circus horse. He's awfully sophisticated, but awfully innocent...
...face, and the walrus mustache, were familiar to San Franciscans, but they were not used to seeing him sitting down, with a viola tucked under his chin. Last week San Francisco concertgoers saw their symphony's conductor, famed old Pierre Monteux, sitting in with a string quartet...