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...Roar & Croon. Around the courthouses of East Tennessee, Jenkins soon became known as a great trial lawyer. Although he makes most of his income ($60,000 last year) from civil suits, his Tennessee fame has come from criminal cases. In his 34 years of practice, he has been on one side or the other (usually the defense) in some 600 homicide cases. There was hardly a murder or rape case in Knoxville in the past 20 years without Ray Jenkins on one side or the other...
Were Sophocles to croon this chorus (from Antigone*) below the boudoir of Existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, she would very likely fling wide her French window and bomb him with The Second Sex (weight: 2¾ Ibs.). For Sophocles' measures stand for just about everything that Author de Beauvoir considers most hateful in human life. As she sees it, the male's conquest of the earth, the sea etc. is just an analogue of his smug conquest of the little woman...
...authored by onetime Stooge Sid Silvers, the picture affords a few good glimpses of behind-the-scenes vaudeville activities. It also gives Dean Martin a chance to croon some pleasant tunes (With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Yours) of the two-a-day vaudeville era. But The Stooge is at its best when it ditches its plot and gives toothy Comic Lewis a chance at his uninhibited mugging, e.g., bashfully kissing a girl for the first time, getting impossibly drunk, wrestling with a fold-up washbasin in a railroad sleeping...
...movement grows apace; fully a third of Manhattan's art shows reflects it, and more & more art lovers claim to love it. Connoisseurs croon over the "technical mastery" of a Jackson Pollock (who dribbles his colors from pails of paint). They borrow such Hans Hofmann phrases as "push and pull on the picture surface" and "empathy in a psychoplastic and rhythmic sense" to praise a Hofmann canvas. When Abstractionist Willem de Kooning admits that he is "still working out of doubt," they can hardly bring themselves to believe...
...party in her Capri villa, Gracie (The Biggest Aspidistra in the World) Fields, durable (53) darling of the British music halls, stood by her Christmas tree to croon a little ditty ("I'm an old goat, but I'm so in love with him"). Then she surprised her guests with the announcement that she plans to marry again. Her third husband-to-be: a 48-year-old Bessarabian-born engineer and radio repairman named Alperovici, whom she calls simply "Honest Boris." "The only thing Boris cannot do," said Gracie, "is sing. We went for a walk this morning...