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...gold-lettered credits (including La Strada), few people -least of all Anthony Quinn-thought of him as a so-called actor of stature until suddenly there he was up on a Broadway stage as England's King Henry II, exchanging complicated philosophies with Sir Laurence Olivier in Becket...
Early in the third stanza, Saybrook showed its last remnants of life. Aided by a pair of penalties, they marched 45 yards to the Harvard 30 with halfback Pete Becket leading the drive. But Eliot recovered a fumble on the 30, and on the next play Wood dashed 57 yards to the Saybrook 12; three plays later he went up the middle to make the score...
...motion picture ever made, although no one has seen it but Producer Spiegel and his bodyguard. O'Toole has been hailed as "a new Olivier," becoming roughly the 29th young actor to be so described. Next spring, he and Richard Burton will begin making the film version of Becket (he is Henry II; Burton is Becket). After that, O'Toole will appear in his own movie production of Waiting for Godot. Columbia Pictures and Alan Jay Lerner want him for the role of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (making him the new Rex Harrison...
...course, that's just a mite unfair. Tchin-Tchin isn't quite so toheap as my prototype: its specific stars are Margaret Leighton and Anthony Quinn-Quinn; its director is Peter Glenville (who has directed Separate Tables and, more recently, Becket). And it also has two very funny scenes at the end of the first and second acts in which Margaret Leighton has, respectively, her first drink and the trembles...
...greatest inconvenience of modern air travel: the wearisome warrens of corridors that stretch seemingly for miles out into the windy tundra. Other outstanding round commercial buildings: Henri Jova's branch bank for the Trust Company of Georgia in Atlanta; Hollywood's Capitol Records Tower, designed by Welton Becket & Associates...