Word: whitford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shoemakers' humor is seldom subtle, but Welles has augmented his troupe with accomplished actors who perform the thwacking horseplay in fine style. As the ruddy little Crispin who becomes Lord Mayor of London, Whitford Kane personifies all the industry, sanity and lustiness of a jolly beefeater. Marian Warring-Manley as his good wife, Margery, waddles it like all the Wives of Bath and Mistress Quicklys who have dedicated their big bosoms and broad buttocks to England's earthy spirit...
...Happiness, Obediah Rich, commanding. He and his vessel had grown old together and were both soon to be decommissioned. So he summoned his elder brother down from Yarmouth, got his passengers aboard, tooted his whistle and on a fine Sunday morning, with the sun high in the sky, Obediah (Whitford Kane) and the Happiness set out for their last cruise from Manhattan's 125th Street to Coney Island...
...centred exactly on the star image. Beautifully accurate as it is, the drive mechanism which swings the telescope along with the star's westward movement cannot be synchronized with absolute perfection. Atmospheric disturbances also may dislodge the star image from the cross-wires. Last week astronomers Albert E. Whitford and G. E. Kron of the University of Wisconsin announced satisfactory preliminary tests of a robot which, they hope, will relieve stargazers of this dull task. Light from the star is split by a reflecting .knife edge so that two beams fall on a photoelectric cell. If in the telescope...
...HOWARD WHITFORD WILLARD...
Running away from the police with a bullet in his arm, Lucky Wilson comes upon Pa Miller (Whitford Kane), a pros perous hay and chicken farmer, living in a saltbox house by Cedric Gibbons. The Miller family?Pa, Ma, Pauline (O'Sulli van), who teaches school, and her little brother Willie?do their best to make Lucky feel at home. Willie shows him the rabbits. Pauline takes him cherry picking. Says she : "You have to whistle when you're picking cherries to show that you're not eating any." When the detectives finally catch up with Lucky Wilson...