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Child of Fortune (by Guy Bolton) derives from one of the most spacious and complex of all Henry James's novels, The Wings of the Dove. That alone may explain why the most recent of James's stage adaptations-which like the best of them might also have been called The Heiress-is among the most unsatisfactory. It is not so much that Adapter Bolton has violated James's novel (although he has made a host of small changes that reduce the book's great cumulative impact to emotional small change); it is much more that...
Ankles Aweigh (music & lyrics by Sammy Fain & Dan Shapiro; book by Guy Bolton & Eddie Davis) made a few miscalculations. It used a thoroughly uninspired score. It settled for extremely commonplace lyrics. It paid little attention to the dancing. Its book floats, on a rusty keel, all over the Mediterranean and unloads benumbing wheezes at every port of call. Nor are Betty and Jane Kean among Broadway's leading leading ladies. Betty can be funny, and both at moments are fun, but theirs is distinctly a rationed, or nightclub, charm...
Last week Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith and Ohio's Republican Representative Frances Bolton introduced resolutions asking that the rose be made the national flower. Said the resolutions: "The rose has long been the favorite flower of the American people, who prefer it by a margin of 18 to 1 over any other." It added that the rose has become an "international symbol of peace"-the Peace rose gardens in such places as Jacksonville and Abilene apparently having dimmed the memory of the Wars of the Roses. Mused Mrs. Bolton: "Perhaps the President would issue...
...know the Communists; they liked him in Spain; in Ireland, yes, and even some places in England and Scotland. The only people who don't like Senator McCarthy are the ones whose minds have been poisoned by such magazines as yours, or are Pinks or Reds themselves . . . NATHAN BOLTON Publisher...
...According to her House sponsor, Ohio's Frances Bolton, the first foreigner so honored...