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...court. Queen Elizabeth (Blanche Thebom) ships Wilton off to Turkey to avoid permitting a misalliance with his inamorata Lady Anne (Doris Yarick). There the michievous Sultan (played to perfection by an appropriately ponderous Ezio Flagello) imprisons Jack in order to keep an excellent organ player. A Venetian damsel in distress named Dorina (actually not in a dress at all, but disguised as a janissary, afraid of the tortures of the Sultan's seraglio, joins Wilton and begs him to help her escape. Jack promises the Sultan to turn Dorina-in-disguise into a musician better than himself within one month...
...young British airman (Denholm Elliott), on holiday in Spain, who sees a runaway truck miss a pretty girl by inches, smells a rat, sets up as a private nose, and, like a questing Quixote with a paunchy Panza (Peter Lorre) at his heels, sets out to rescue his damsel in distress. In the course of the hero's aro-mantic maunderings, the customer gets quite an eyeful of Spain: the Alhambra, the Alcazaba, the Cathedral at Malaga, the bullfights at Pamplona. He also gets a snootful: apples, peaches, brandy, wine, tobacco, shoe polish, peppermint, roses, garlic, not to mention...
...haired Pianist Van Cliburn, 24, recently given to muttering about his mysterious true love, either unveiled the damsel herself or made a third party quite jealous. Stalked by a photographer for the London Evening News, Van was spotted strolling hand in hand with pretty, young (19) Tonina Dorati, daughter of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra's Conductor Antal Dorati, now also on a European tour. Earlier, Cliburn characterized his nameless heartthrob as "someone who thinks she's a musician-but she's not." By coincidence, Tonina plays the piano without distinction...
...Columbia Pictures Corp. issued a stern caveat to a hot property, sometime lavender-haired Cineminx Kim Novak: no more would she see her yacht-bounding buddy, General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr. La Novak, sighing loudly enough for even the most quote-weary columnist to hear clearly, sounded like a damsel in the dragon's clutch: "I don't know whether I'll ever see him again. Now that he's been painted as a villain, it has spoiled everything. We had a beautiful friendship. He was so interesting and nice...
When North Carolina upset Navy last month, Football turned sour at Annapolis. The embarrassed Middies had been trying too hard. To loosen them up, Coach Eddie Erdelatz encouraged a corny gag: every game was dedicated to a nicely rounded, nonexistent damsel named Rosie Ragoni. And for Rosie the Navy won. But against the unbeaten and untied Irish of Notre Dame, the team needed stronger magic. It was provided unwittingly by Navy's athletic director, Captain Slade Cutter. The Middies were getting a little tired of his reminders that every game except the Army game was only a practice scrimmage...