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Some radio listeners last week tried to puzzle their way through Café Istanbul's chaotic plot. But others were content just to listen to the clinging, faintly accented voice of Marlene Dietrich, who opened her new radio series as the Café's owner. As she has countless times since the classic Blue Angel, Marlene played the same romantic, Weltschmerz role and whispered snatches of French and German songs. Some listeners may have felt cheated because Marlene was limited to a few choruses of La Vie en Rose and four bars of a song in German...
Things were really popping that night at Café Istanbul (Sun. 9:15 p.m., ABC). Someone had fired a shot at the nervous little man just in from Iran. Was it oily-voiced Achille Zazsrewska ? Or was it Christopher Card, the hard-boiled American whose dialogue had an oldtime Hemingway flavor ("You remember the Place de la Concorde. You remember it fine")? Or it might even have been suave Raoul Felki, the Turkish commissioner of police...
...other thing" gets a thorough workout in Café Istanbul, as it has in most of her movies. Broadway may get its first chance to see it this fall, if Marlene decides to do Jacques Deval's new play, Samarkand. As for television: "I don't want to get into it yet. I'm waiting for it to get better. After all, I'll have to defend my title...
...Greenwich Village. When the first issue of 5,000 copies arrived from the Pittsburgh printer, Wallace hired barflies from the speakeasy to help him and Lila wrap and address them. They piled the mail sacks into a taxicab, took them to the post office, then stopped in a café to toast the future...
...film trots out Warner's full stable of stars-Doris Day, Ruth Roman, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Phil Harris, Jane Wyman, Frank Lovejoy et al. But the show's best number is a hilarious skit, "How to Bake a Pousse-Café Cake," performed by the nightclub team of Noonan & Marshall...