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...last week, these lines were more or less back to normal service, but the biggest of the European carriers, British European Airways, which carries more passengers than any other airline outside the U.S., was in continuing turbulence. Sir Anthony Milward, chairman of the state-owned BEA, passed the trouble off as a "bad patch" of flying; passengers characterized it as a chronic inability to get off the ground in proper flying time...
...blooming bundle from Britain, packed away from the blitz with her actress mother and sent to study drama in New York. She was, she says, "16, going on 95" when she got her first job-as a nightclub singer and impressionist in Canada. "I did Bea Lillie, Gracie Fields and a Wagnerian opera singer," she recalls. "I wasn't awfully good." True, but her nightclub spot earned enough money to pay her passage to Hollywood, and it was there, at 17, that she got her first movie role, and there that casting directors decided that Angela Lansbury...
...mother, easily her best to date, and not once does she lapse into any of the mannerisms that have marked her last three performances. Susan Channing plays the daughter. Her sheer technical skill is amazing, and she manipulates the emotions of the audience with the slightest change of expression. Bea Paipert plays the Cook and effectively establishes the mood and tone of the production, on which the other characters have to build. If Joel Silverstein and Jim Shuman, as the son-in-law and son, lack the vocal technique to completely put over their most difficult scenes, they make...
...Anglican bishops and clergy of Canterbury's retinue bowed to kiss the Pope's ring. Somewhat more coolly, the Roman cardinals shook hands with Canterbury and the other Anglicans; only the ecumenical-minded Augustin Cardinal Bea bowed. Then Paul and Canterbury retired to the Pope's private study for a 65-minute private discussion. Next day they met for prayers together at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the (Vatican) Walls...
...womanly baritone laughs a line home. Waves of appreciation break across the stage. The timing matches Bankhead's; the zany movements beat Bea Lillie's. It is just as nobody predicted: Lauren Bacall can pack them in the theater the way she packed them in the movies back in the '40s when she was Mrs. Humphrey Bogart. "Looks like I'm one hell of a Broadway draw," she drawls...