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...Hugh Griffith, 50, a 1960 Oscar winner for his comic role as the chariot-racing Sheik Ilderim in Ben-Hur, laid it on a mite thick. Standing atop a wooden box in London's Aldwych Theater for a mock hanging scene in Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Griffith slipped, felt the noose tighten round his neck, and blacked out gurgling. First came the smelling salts, then the brandy. Ten minutes later the beetle-browed Welshman was back-and with a hangdog look, remounted the box to go on with the show. "I had forebodings about...
...world of O. (for Oscar) Roy Chalk, 55, sometimes resembles the pocketa-pocketa dream world of Walter Mitty. Chalk it was who in 1959 unsuccessfully volunteered to take New York City's struggling $6 billion bus and subway system off the city's hands for $615 million. Then there was the Chalk plan to lure New York-Washington commuters away from the trains and airlines with a fleet of seven-passenger limousines equipped with telephones and dictating machines. Currently Chalk is absorbed in an 85-m.p.h. rubber-tired "Superail," similar to monorails. He wants to build one from...
Ralph was the last to go and the most vehement in his denials. He actually went to Texas to submit to questioning by Wilson. But while he kept insisting that he never received any clothing, he did admit, under hard questioning, that a salesman had come up with a chalk and tape measure and worked on a suit that Ralph was trying on. Since Ralph persisted in denying that he got any clothing, his case remained hanging until last week, when further investigation showed that he had used an Estes credit card to pay for personal telephone calls. Freeman fired...
Died. Frank Wilson Braden. 76. cigar-puffing circus press agent, a walking, talking thesaurus of big-top ballyhoo to whom clowns were not clowns but rather "red-nosed, chalk-faced worshipers of the bluebird of happiness." who variously trumpeted the thrills of the Gentry. Sells-Floto, Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey, and Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers circuses for half a century; of pneumonia; in Providence...
Carvings in Chalk. At school, young Bourdelle paid no attention to his studies. At the end of each day, his pockets would be crammed with tiny sculptures he had carved from chalk and wood. When he was 13, he produced a delicate fawn for one of his father's customers, and it so pleased a local patron that Bourdelle was sent to nearby Toulouse to study...