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...creditors, ducks his car up a Sunset Boulevard driveway and blunders into an eerie survival of an extinct world. In the moldering, overgrown grounds he finds a mausoleum-like Hollywood mansion, circa 1921, intact to the last monstrous detail. It is inhabited by two living relics: Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), a great star of the silent movies, still wealthy, with an arrogant grandeur once rooted in fame and now propped by delusion; Max von Mayerling (Erich von Stroheim), once a great director (which Von Stroheim was), now her devoted servant and the dedicated guardian of her self-centered daydream...
Holden becomes a pawn of Norma Desmond's ruthless obsession: to regain her lost glory both as an actress and a woman. In need of a haven and money, he is maneuvered into joining the menage when she offers him the job of patching up the terrible scenario she has written for her comeback as Salome. Weak and reluctant, but never reluctant enough, he stays on as her gigolo...
...past three years, more & more Britons have been listening with rapt attention to a BBC program called Bird Song of the Month. Even non-bird-lovers have been won by the personality of the show's M.C., excitable, 68-year-old Dr. Ludwig Koch. Says Producer Desmond Hawkins: "The charm about Ludwig is that he is one of the few fanatics left...
Richard W. Wallach '49 1L will talk with State Education Commissioner John J. Desmond, Jr. '09 today, following up his public promise to investigate Father Feeney's right to GI Bill funds...
...Statesman and Nation's Desmond Shawe-Taylor wore a this-hurts-me-more-than-you look: "The grumble that events are too many and the day too crowded is merely frivolous . . . More serious is the complaint that this festival has no natural focal point, as Salzburg has in Mozart, Bayreuth in Wagner, and Aldeburgh in Britten; this is true and perhaps a pity . . . but what sort of festival could be constructed out of purely Scottish material...