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Island in the Sun (Darryl F. Zanuck; 20th Century-Fox), an unraveling of Alec Waugh's 1955 bestseller, is Moviemaker Zanuck's first lone-wolf production since he left Fox. This turbid plot-boiler clearly rates a special award as the sexiest West Indian travelogue ever made. The mating season is always in full swing on the throbbing Caribbean isle of Santa Marta, which doubtless boasts the highest imaginary birth rate of any 50-mile-long island under the sun. Island employs even the unsubtle cinema device of the screen-bottom exit, pointed up with gasps and romantic...
...doubles, Snow and Ewart (M) defeated Alan Wolf and Blackmer (H), 6-4, 6-4; Keyes and Humphreys (H) defeated Lake and Moffett (M), 6-4, 5-7, 6-1; and Alec Bancroft and Pete Rient (H) won in straight sets over Weld and Field...
...remainder of the Smith slate. Thomas Winter, Vice-President; Alec Dawson, Operations Director; Bruce Mac-Gregor, Secretary; and Jerry Fulmer, Treasurer, were elected with little trouble...
...film, of course, revolves upon Alec Guinness's amazing display of virtuoso acting, as he plays seven different and distinct characters including the lead. Completely British in tone, Mr. Guinness underplays each role with a delightfully droll, often satirical, humor which never over-extends itself or tries too hard to be guffawingly funny...
White currently heads White, Weld & Company, a New York investment house which was founded by his grandfather and grand-uncle in 1837. One of the nation's most conservative and powerful underwriting firms, White, Weld employs more than 500 workers, including 23 partners, in its Wall Street offices. "Alec" White, a tall man with long-fingered hands that gesture as he speaks, became a managing partner in 1929, when his father's illness forced him to "back into the family firm...