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Pantomime is both basic and superb at the Second City: Charlie Chaplin is figuratively assassinated in a bit called "City Blights," and Sweden's Cinema Director Ingmar Bergman is taken apart in a parody called "Seven Sealed Strawberries." Another regular feature, "Great Books," pours cholesterol into the heart of literature. In one session, as an adult evening class discusses Oedipus Rex, a woman declares brightly: "I think he knew it all the time...
...thought fitting was "The Cathedral of Motion Pictures." As the cathedral's doors opened, 125 special policemen held back the mobs that strained for a look at their flicker favorites. Among the 6,000 first-nighters were New York's Mayor Jimmy Walker, Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin and Gloria Swanson, star of the cathedral's first attraction, The Love of Sunya. As the audience settled back in the plush mohair seats, an actor in a monk's robe appeared on stage, spread his arms and said: "Let there be light." With his words, the audience rose...
...week Hollywood writer (Charlie Sorell) who spent most of his time in bed with other men's wives and is brought back after death-in the body of Lauren Bacall. "In some sort of jazzy, Old Testament way," says his best friend (Sydney Chaplin), "you're being punished." The show had one ending when it opened in Pittsburgh, another by the time it got to Detroit, will probably have several more before it finishes its two months on the road. The Detroit Times found the "situations and dialogue so uniformly funny . . . that even the most racy moments...
...Niehans modestly denies that he has ever treated (as often reported) the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, or his near neighbor, the aging (70) Charlie Chaplin. Nor, he says, has he personally treated Chancellor Konrad Adenauer or Sir Winston Churchill, but both have had Niehans' cellular injections from other physicians. In the isolation of his palatial home, Dr. Niehans admits that besides the criterion of "individual prominence," he chooses patients who are "most likely to give good response to treatment." This selection may go far to explain why so many are satisfied...
Died. Alfred Justin McCosker, 72, cofounder and onetime (1934-47) board chairman of the Mutual Broadcasting System, a director in radio's early days (of Newark station WOR) who introduced bedtime stories, setting-up exercises, Hollywood gossip-coaxed Charlie Chaplin to his first radio performance; of a heart attack; in Miami...