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...better. Victor .Mature, who used to wander aimlessly through slick-haired juvenile roles before his 41-month hitch in the Coast Guard, actually does some acting as the dipsomaniac doctor-turned-renegade. Linda Darnell (a brunette for the last time before dyeing her hair honey-blonde to play Amber) is the lushly pretty dance-hall tart...
...United Press correspondent in Tokyo named Earnest Hoberecht had time on his hands. Nobody in Japan, he noted, had written a Hucksters, an Egg & I or an Amber for the postwar Japanese trade. He decided to do it himself...
Gone too was disastrous Rule 42 C of the Defense Regulations, which had closed 174 nightclubs because the police had "reason to believe there was drunkenness" on the premises. Some 15 establishments had survived, ranging from the plushy "400" (newly decorated in pale peach and amber) to the brash "Nuthouse," whose walls are inscribed with legends like: "Through these portals the most beautiful girls in the world have passed...
Heroine Chloe ("The One Woman, with all London at her feet") is as far removed from Winnie-the-Pooh as Amber is from Little Eva. Her beauty, writes Milne, who is now a frosty and vigorous 64, "was beauty triumphant; alive, challenging, insistent; a brilliant attack on the sex of every man." From the instant of her awakening (around noon) to the moment when her gorgeous form slides between the sheets once more (6 a.m., usually), Chloe's boudoir rings with the anguished moans of a slew of infatuated males, ranging from struggling artists to doddering peers, and mostly...
While this may leave the author of "Forever Amber," and other writers who sell sex by the ream, out in the cold, the complete works of Mr. Hemingway and other novelists are shelved in Widener, Metealf explained...