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Miss Boyko, however, gets some good support from Lucia French, who plays the insane mother with cunning simplicity, and from Mary Ann Donahue, an appropriately lively Sophie Newcomb school girl, who captures the young doctor. Sharon Gans, playing the gossipy Mrs. Bassett, has a good deal of trouble with her accent, but this only brings out the humor in her part. Although the supporting males are generally ineffectual, at least they aren't often on stage. Patricia Guest, as the Mexican charmer Rosa Gonzales, is perfectly sensual, but unfortunately a little too sensual. For some reason, when confronted...
Died. Brigadier General John Hartman Morgan, 79, British lawyer and top authority on constitutional law; at Wootton Bassett, England. General Morgan was legal adviser to the American War Crimes Commission at Nürnberg from 1947 to 1949, advised the prosecution in the postwar treason trial of Nazi Broadcaster William ("Lord Haw Haw") Joyce, which led to Joyce's hanging...
Last month, Webb moved his old gun collection, his $135 sports jackets, his portable typewriter and Dudley, his bassett hound, into a $100,000 ultramodern two-bar house, high in Beverly Hills' celebrity-studded Coldwater Canyon. Last week he had the house up for sale. In his intense and single-minded haste to go on conquering Hollywood, he has not even found time to use his swimming pool. "Jack," says Stanley Meyer, the protocol-conscious business manager of Webb's Mark VII Productions, "would live in one room with a cot and a movie projector...
...fashionable and distinguished-looking Londoner, Mrs. John R. Bassett, found a Christmas note from her son in the mail one day last week. This commonplace occurrence made headlines all over Britain, for Mrs. Bassett is the mother of Guy Burgess, the young British diplomat who disappeared behind the Iron Curtain more than two years ago with his foreign-office colleague, Donald MacLean...
...note, dated November and written in ink in a hand positively identified as Guy's by Mrs. Bassett, was the first tangible evidence that Burgess is still alive. Beyond that fact, it proved nothing. Written on British stationery and enclosed in an envelope postmarked "Dec. 21, London, S.E. 1," the note might have been written anywhere and mailed by any one of thousands wandering the streets of southeast London that day. Two Soviet cargo ships were tied up in London at the time, and the Waterloo Airways Terminal is part of the postal district in which the letter...