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HALF A SIXPENCE "is better than none" is Tommy Steele's theme in this younger-than-springtime musical, and the ubiquitous Steele is better than most of the breed as the singing-dancing-banjo-playing Kipps, a rags-to-riches-to-rags hero...
...What breed of white man, save a guilt-ridden fanatic from one of our 20th century churches, would actually choose black rule? Can you seriously imagine preferring to be outnumbered 16 to 1 by blacks in swimming pools, theaters and schools, preferring to live under some monstrously multicolored rag instead of the Union Jack, preferring to point to speculative historical "records" of some primitive people as a record of antecedents instead of to England's glory and the brilliance of English-African settlements...
...change was reflected at last week's opening of the National Horse Show in New York. Once the private preening ground for Manhattan's well-groomed society thoroughbreds, this year's show was as well attended as ever, but by a somewhat different breed. Except for a few perennials, Society Columnist Joseph Dever noted that "society was conspicuously missing. On the normally chic north side, we counted less than two dozen white ties, and fash ion photogs were left with surplus film on their hands ... It looks like the National is being taken over by the real...
Director Forbes occasionally indulges in fashionable camera trickery, such as freezing the action into a still shot at a critical moment, but King Rat scarcely needs that kind of help. There is sizzling intrigue in a diamond-peddling deal, corrosive humor in King's plan to breed rats and peddle their flesh as small jungle deer, a local delicacy ("For the luxury trade," he chortles, "brass only-majors and up!"). The film's most blistering episode concerns an anguished soldier's pet dog, condemned to death for killing a chicken. Later, the King invites his cronies...
Parries and attacks are sharpening in the four-round varsity intrasquad George H. Breed tournament which began this week...