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...launched a campaign "to make it impossible for our children to obtain smut." Among the first volumes marked with the words "This book is for adult readers": John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, some of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. Needed for a youngster who wants to get any of them: a librarian's decision...
...first full-scale ballet (in 1938's Goldwyn Follies), calls him "the greatest choreographer we have in this country." and adds: "I don't think he has $10 to his name." In 1951 Goldwyn engaged him, at a sturdy fee, for the ballet in Hans Christian Andersen, only to have Balanchine beg off: too busy with ballet at City Center...
Other expected big-grossers: From Here to Eternity (Columbia), $12,500,000 Shane (Paramount), $8,000,000; How to Marry a Millionaire (20th Century-Fox, CinemaScope), $7,500,000; Peter Pan (Walt Disney; RKO Radio), $7,000,000; Hans Christian Andersen (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio), $6,000,000; House of Wax (Warner, 3-D), $5,500,000; Mogambo (M-G-M), $5,200,000; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (20th Century-Fox), $5,100,000; Moulin Rouge (Romulus Films; United Artists), $5,000,000; Salome (Beckworth Corp.; Columbia), $4.750,000; The Charge at Feather River (Warner...
...18th century plainclothesmen, but not all the guests were so socially correct. Washington Socialite Gwendolyn Cafritz burst in, looking very modern, with an apology: "I had Schiaparelli whip this up only yesterday; I had simply no time to find anything 18th century," Screen Star "Zizi" Jeanmaire (Hans Christian Andersen) turned up in a few strategically placed sequins, riding what might or might not have been an 18th century camel. Another girl came as a white rabbit, with neither explanation nor apology. Host Cuevas himself received his guests as a timeless "God of Nature" in cloth of gold, a scarlet cape...
Hans Christian Andersen. Danny Kaye as Denmark's great storyteller in a fanciful biography with music (TIME...