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...until the heavens are right. Dozens of stars will make no move (or movie) without calling Righter. Marlene Dietrich, whose respect for the master shot up when he correctly predicted that she would break her ankle in a studio accident, uses airplanes only when he gives the nod. Arlene Dahl, Robert Cummings, Rhonda Fleming, the Gabors, Hildegarde Neff, Adolphe Menjou, Tab Hunter, Susan Hayward, Red Skelton-all would rather pay Righter than the piper. Some use him more than others. Says Mrs. Van Johnson: "I don't ask Carroll when I should go to the bathroom, like some...
Kiss Kiss (308 pp.)-Roald Dahl-Knopf...
...hero forges onward and downward, square-jawed and indomitably prissy, his footsteps are dogged by the usual unmitigated cur (Thayer David), and loyally followed by four trite and true companions: a plucky youth (Pat Boone), a good-natured giant (Peter Ronson), a beautiful widow (Arlene Dahl) and a noble-souled duck named Gertrude. (The widow, of course, is present over the hero's most passionately prudish protests. "But madam, think!" he gasps. "The lack of privacy...
...opera scores, as last week's Jackson performances demonstrated, are tautly constructed, neatly professional jobs, full of garish dramatic effects. The Soldier, based on a story by Roald Dahl, is a moody study of a World War II veteran who returns home psychologically scarred, suspects his wife of trying to drive him insane, and eventually winds up in a mental institution. To this curdled tale Composer Engel fitted a score shot through with warm lyrical flights that died suddenly in derisively dissonant evocations of the chaos in the soldier's mind. Engel's fellow Jacksonians responded enthusiastically...
Born. To Arlene Dahl. 30, red-haired cinema siren (Wicked As They Come), and Fernando Lamas. 43, suave, Argentine-born Broadway actor (Happy Hunting): a son, their first child; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Lorenzo Fernando. Weight...