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...Behold are Fielding's favorite characters, and Richardson makes frequent and gloriously funny use of them. His actors catch the spirit of the thing from the first scene, and they have a picnic. The characters are rumbustious caricatures. Joyce Redman is a soggy old piece of cake. Finney is Tom clean through-a fine strapping country boy whose heart is in the right place even when his foremost interest isn't. But Hugh Griffith is the man to watch. A tankard in one hand, a buttock in the other, Squire Western superbly defines a type not quite extinct...
...Mills, Inc., the nation's largest flour miller ($524 million in sales), who joined the company as a mill hand in 1919, caught the eye of Founder James Ford Bell and became his chief lieutenant, helping expand breakfast foods (Wheaties, Cheerios), push on into convenience foods (Betty Crocker cake mixes) and half a dozen other businesses from chemicals to electronics; of Hodgkin's disease; in Minneapolis...
PORGY AND BESS (RCA Victor) is another case of too much cake for the oven -this time with Leontyne Price towering over both score (excerpted songs) and cast (William Warfield, McHenry Boat-wright). The recording is rich, the singing is fine, and the livin' is easy-at least for those who can bear the thought of Price singing under Skitch Henderson's baton...
...Dottie imagines her lover has told her to get a "peccary," when he said "pessary." But it isn't offensive, and her humor takes other forms. She is ironic, too, often with great subtlety. And she has a number of neat phrases, as when a party guest described the cake: "it's like eating frosted absorbent cotton...
Everything about the party was high. It took place at 33,000 ft. aboard a DC-8 en route from Montreal to Paris. The cake was in the shape of a straw hat, and the nightlong free champagne was Moët et Chandon 1955. It was Trans Canada Air Lines' way of bidding happy birthday to Maurice Chevalier, 75. Said the septuagenarian on landing: "I haven't closed my eyes since I left Montreal, but I don't feel tired at all." Will he ever retire? "I'd like to do a movie with Brigitte...