Word: yorkerism
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...North (by Owen Davis, produced by Alfred de Liagre Jr.) is based on The New Yorker* sketches and a detective novel by the New York Sun's Dramacritic Richard Lockridge and his wife. The Norths (Albert Hackett & Peggy Conklin) are a nice young Greenwich Village couple who have a nice time until Mr. North opens the living-room closet to get the mixings for a drink and a corpse falls out. This rigid, sudden corpse-fall, the best in many dramatic seasons, is executed by a young actor named Robert Lieb who gets no program credit. Thereafter the Norths...
...other plays this season from The New Yorker stories: My Sister Eileen, Pal Joey...
...most ardent Jew-baiter, Lord Haw-Haw's Twilight Over England is interesting only for its preface. There William Joyce (whose name has been Germanized to Fröhlich) puts his imprimatur on the fact that his father was an Irishman, his mother a Briton, himself a New Yorker. Born in 1906, educated by Jesuits in Ireland, Joyce became a Fascist in 1923, joined up with comic-strip Dictator Mosley ten years later. Twice arrested for assaulting fellow citizens in political brawls, Joyce took it on the lam for Berlin just before war was declared...
...comfortable. Others who caught the Guild's professional and admiring eye: Glenwood J. Sherrard, president-manager of Boston's Parker House; William Rhinelander Stewart, Manhattan socialite; Lucius Beebe, lush cafe columnist; Dr. Gordon Green, New York physician; Frank L. Andrews, president of the Hotel New Yorker; platinum-haired, oriflammable Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator. McNutt, smiling modestly, also denied that he gave dressing any real thought, declared: "One is rather embarrassed by all this, and I think the less said the better...
...various men come various honors. To Peter Arno, middle-aging glamor boy of Manhattan cafes, cartoonist for The New Yorker, went the honor last week of being chosen the best-dressed man in the U. S. The award was made by the Custom Tailors Guild of America, which ought to know...