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...last week, revolution seemed imminent in the dry air. The government in Pretoria dispatched one Professor Frederick Tomlinson, chairman of a commission on native life, into the hills to protect the old queen. But as the professor approached the mountains around Devil's Valley, a torrential rain poured from the skies. He waited 48 hours for the downpour to stop, then abandoned the mission. Tnbesmen, deciding that perhaps the old queen has what it takes after all were heard to mutter: "Mujaji has put up a ram curtain to stop the white man." The queen seemed safe once more...
...Photographer (alternate Thurs. 10:30 p.m., CBS-TV), after an eight-year stretch as a radio cops & robbers show, moves to television without leaving a single clue or cliche behind. News Photographer Casey, as played by Richard Carlyle, wears his hat on the back of his head, is a devil with the ladies, and is only halted in his headlong pursuit of justice by a hush-voiced announcer breathing: "Don't be half-safe, use Arrid...
...mosaic and Matisse sketch, but never the Richier crucifix. "It was evil," a woodcutter ventured. A young girl agreed: "The figure was thin and frightening. The colors of the other art in the church make me feel alive and strong, but this thing only scared me like a dark devil...
...first leave in 1935, he wrote White Wings (based on the play by Philip Barry); he managed the musical score for Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster in a summer only because it was short and could be dashed off in a few months. On his second sabbatical, in 1942, he picked a libretto that "wouldn't work" and "missed the boat." He wrote a Quintet and some songs instead. Last week audiences in Columbia's Brander Matthews Hall saw and heard what good, grey Douglas Moore, 57, had cooked up on his third...
...point, simply to avoid the incessant heckling of makeup men who complained about the difficulties of shading her "nipple" nose, Barbara went to a plastic surgeon and had it bobbed. "It hurt," she said, "like the devil." The Hollywood payoff came when R.K.O.'s new boss Howard Hughes declared that Barbara had "no sex appeal." "That," said Barbara, "made me mad as hell." After 2½ years and four pictures, she and the studio parted company. "I was fired," is the way Barbara puts...