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...according to his lights, left the youngsters plenty to work with. They had a $6,000,000 production nut to crack, along with "a million-two" ($1,200,000) set aside for promotion. They had Vista-Vision, Technicolor, five big stars (Charles Boyer, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom, Inger Stevens and the berugged Brynner), 55 featured players, 100 bit-players, 12,000 calls for extras, 60,000 props-including 15 authentic pirogues, $100,000 worth of genuine antique furniture and two boxcarloads of Spanish moss and cypress trees. Not to overlook one of the best true-adventure stories in American history...
Others on the Board of Overseers who will become Senior Associates are William G. Saltonstall '28, Francis Boyer '16, and Edwin A. Locke, all of whom will join Lowell House. James M. Faulkner '20 will become associated with Eliot House...
...Marriage-Go-Round (by Leslie Stevens) has three strings to its bow: Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer and Julie Newmar. With their help, one of the season's crudest commodities may well become one of its most solid hits...
Actress Colbert and Actor Boyer play a happily married middle-aged couple-she a dean of women, he a professor of anthropology-in a small college town. At opposite ends of the stage they give cutey-cute lectures on marriage which, on a midstage merry-go-round-like set, they themselves help illustrate. As The Marriage-Go-Round's third or G-string, Actress Newmar plays an amply built Swedish blonde who. from out the whole world, has chosen Boyer to give her a child. Her body, she informs him, "is primed in readiness...
...much single-mindedness, so many double meanings have a way-despite occasionally funny lines-of seeming both tedious and tawdry. Where The Marriage-Go-Round is not a Junoesque strip-tease on Actress Newmar's part, it becomes an attempted script-save on Colbert's and Boyer's. Their manner of saving it is to throw away as much of it as possible. What they give instead is an illustrated lecture-on the art of timing, of diversionary tactics, of seeming to fondle dialogue while carefully holding it at arm's length. Even they cannot...