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...addition, the first floor will have a 165-seat auditorium with a projection booth, screen, and modern lighting facilities. The present mezzanine will be converted into departmental libraries, while offices and seminar rooms will occupy the other three floors. Classrooms will be built in the basement and the first floor...
...that, Herb went on, Enright told him to get a "whitewall" marine-style haircut, and selected a worn-out suit and tie for him to complete the picture of the penniless G.I. He coached him in grimace and gesture, taught him how to "think" violently in the TV isolation booth ("I call it the Dan Enright school of acting"). All his questions, said Herb, were fed to him in advance by Enright...
...Matchmaker (Don Hartman; Paramount) is Shirley Booth, and no one can match her when she is on the middle-aged make. Waving her umbrella like a fairy godmother with a poltergeistic wand, she stumbles, rumbles and cannily bumbles her way through the title role of Thornton Wilder's 1956 stage success in a manner that moviegoers with a taste for old-fashioned American farce will have no trouble savoring...
...Dolly Levi, a widow of parts, Actress Booth plays an erstwhile palm reader and dispenser of medicine oil whose present project is snaring Horace Vandergelder (Paul Ford), possibly the richest merchant in all Yonkers in 1884. Her mission is complicated by the merchant's preference for finance rather than romance. "Marriage," he snorts, "is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder." Even worse, the old skinflint seems set on marrying somebody young. Author Wilder's solution, which involves exploding tomato tins, a pair of Vandergelder's clerks uprooting the City...
Wilder and Scriptwriter John Michael Hayes coat this slapstick with lavish layers of roguish dialogue. If Actress Booth blinks at the camera and confides, "Money is like manure-it's not worth anything unless it's spread around," Actor Ford is there a moment later to lament: "Oh for the days when women were sold for a few cows." Chief Clerk Tony Perkins, who seems to be trying to recapture Jimmy Stewart's lost youth, paws the ground and in that familiar marble-mouthed drawl reckons that he might try kissing a girl...