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...begin with, Director Allen pokes some sly fun at the balloon itself: a big, pink, candy-striped burp that floats above a unicorny dreamboat possibly borrowed from Disneyland. He also has a few snickers for the leathery old hams with which Balloon is ballasted: Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Red Buttons, Herbert Marshall, Billy Gilbert, Chester the Chimp-the ape apes them all and in the process manages slyly to suggest that they are all making monkeys of themselves. Gravely he lists the cinema cliches associated with African adventure: senile rented lions, brffsking British bwanas, bulbous Viennese sheiks, disdressed American...
...project to play all 102 of his works. But as he neared his 80th birthday, in company with another of the century's great creators (see ART), Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky was his own best celebrator. In Toronto last week he shuffled to the podium, looking owlishly like Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and conducted the CBC Symphony in some of the best music to flow from his pen in years...
Divorced. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, 68, eminent British actor turned situation comedian on U.S. TV (Mrs. G. Goes to College); by Actress Mary Scott, 39, his second wife, who accused him of fobbing her off with such passe dialogue as "Marriage is for the bourgeoisie"; after eleven years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...contrasting warmth of Gertrude Berg almost saves Mrs. G. Goes to College (CBS), although the situation itself is both sad and saccharine: a widow in her 50s enrolls as a freshman at U.C.L.A. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who also played opposite her in Broadway's A Majority of One, helps a bit, but nothing can be done with a script that sets its sights along "the hippopotamus of a right triangle.'' And Car 54, Where Are You? is a question that does not deserve an answer. An NBC show written by Nat Hiken (who wrote Sergeant Bilko...
...Goes to College (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). PREMIÈRE. Broadway's A Majority of One team, Gertrude Berg and Sir Cedric Hardwicke, in a new series about a matronly widow and a Cambridge University exchange professor...