Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is more than good direction. There are excellent performances by Jean Gabin as the deserting soldier; Michele Morgan as his wide-eyed mistress; and particularly Michele Simon as the pathological toy-merchant who kills and mutilates because of an unnatural love for his ward. In addition, there is an outstanding gallery of minor characters--each strikingly delineated and yet kept in proportion...
...cocksure Bill Burnett (self-consciously cute Fred MacMurray) blew in from Bali like a tropical monsoon, scripters were hard put to it to keep him from thawing icy Gail too fast, convincing her too soon that woman's place is in the home when not in the maternity ward. Vainly trying to stave off this inevitable ending, they tossed in trim Noel Van Ness (Danish-born Cinemactress Osa Massen), also blown in from Bali and quite tropical too about Burnett. When that fails, the story just starts running around in circles, from Nassau to Bali to Manhattan. Hero MacMurray...
...acted with Al Jolson, led a band, served as the Ward McAllister of Harlem and bills himself on his calling card as the greatest pianist on earth, obviously the name Willie Smith is an insufficient handle. Accordingly, Harlem's Willie Smith calls himself The Lion*and habitually refers to himself in the third person. His entrance into a Harlem hotspot is nothing short of imperial. "The Lion is here," is his simple greeting, and it gets plenty of respectful attention. For Willie may not be the greatest piano player on earth, but he is hard to beat between 110th...
Sure enough, the finalists were Billows and Ward. For his 92 holes of match play that far, Billows was nine under par. Ward had-played 103 holes, was 12 under. In the semifinal, Ward had shot three birdies and an eagle right in a row. Against this, Chicago's Art Doering got three pars and a birdie, could not win a hole...
...final, Ward took the first nine one up, was four up at the end of the first 18. Billows had him even only once, on the eighth. In the afternoon round, Ward blazed through the first nine to become seven up. On the 13th, with five holes to play, he was still seven up and national champion. Ward hits super-lengthy drives, on-in-two brassies, crisp irons, but the answer to last week's feat lay in his putter. In the 66 holes he had to play in the last two rounds, he one-putted 29 greens, three...