Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scriptwriter Frank Nugent did the original story an injustice by introducing extraneous characters and de-emphasizing the police inspector, but Majesty still comes across very well. Cyril Cusack gives the best performance in the film as the inspector, and Noel Purcell is almost as good. The rest of the characters are Mr. Nugent's creatures, and are more than a little hammy. But then, Ireland may be a little hammy...
...choreographed by Eugene Loring-whose dances gave last week's Crescendo, a big CBS variety show, some of its infrequent high moments. ¶ Standard Oil's (NJ.) $600,000 75th Anniversary Show, to be staged in color over NBC (9 to 10:30 p.m., E.D.T.) by Theaterman Cyril Ritchard, stars Tyrone Power, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr, Donald O'Connor, Jane Powell, Marge and Gower Champion, Brandon de Wilde, Duke Ellington, Eddie Mayehoff, Kay Thompson, Columnist Art Buchwald and British Cartoonist Ronald Searle...
Cooked Spaghetti. Cheerily resigned to her new home-away-from Home, The Arlene Francis Show, she staged a salute to woman suffrage, told fairy tales, dueted with Comedienne Elaine Stritch, interviewed General Carlos Romulo, chitchatted with Actor Cyril Ritchard, and delivered a spoof of Marlene Dietrich's seductive See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have. Only a fractured heel, which she got hopping over a low railing on Home, kept her from dancing. As always, Arlene's personal didos were gay, frolicsome and deceptively casual. "Sometimes," she explains, "the cozy, casual chums...
...chores, Alfred Hitchcock will produce and direct ten films for NBC's Suspicion; Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis return with six specials each; and Dean Martin plans to alternate with Polly Bergen. General Motors celebrates its 50th anniversary with Jubilee of American Music, and Standard Oil will hire Cyril Ritchard, Jimmy Durante, June Allyson, Bert Lahr, Jane Powell, Kay Thompson, Marge and Gower Champion for its 75th birthday party. NBC will also spotlight the National Tennis singles, the World Series (in color), the Rose Bowl game, and Queen Elizabeth's U.S. visit. Such old perennials as Perry, Dinah...
...Born Cyril Trimnell-Ritchard 58 years ago ("Just say I was born and progressed in the 17th century"), he was educated by convent nuns, packed off to Sydney University to study medicine. After one year he hooked up in musical shows "as a pimply novice" with his boyhood idol, Actress Elliott. In 1935 Madge and Cyril, dubbed by Noel Coward "the singing Lunts," were married "with 3,000 people in the cathedral and 20,000 in the streets." Later in the U.S., Ritchard wasted his directorial skills on a dismal flop called Buy Me Blue Ribbons ("The reviews were simply...