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...dazing him. Mr. Universe, blue suede shoes splattered with his own blood, hung on to a door jamb. Crowed Mae of the groggy Adonis: "He's dangerous. You can see what he's trying to do ... I'm an institution! You can't drag an institution down!" Then Mae pointed to her chaise longue and barked at Mickey: "Lay down! Go on, lay down!" Whimpered Mr. Universe: "I don't want to lay down, Miss West." Mr. California's assault trial was set for late this month, and Mr. Universe was suing...
...Lloyd C. Douglas story the suffering was zoned; it took place only in the very best shruburbs. In the Sartre resartion, Agony Alley is the main drag of an abominably filthy Mexican village. There, stretched flat on the floor boards of a squalid second-class bus, a European traveler (Andre Toffel) is dying of cerebrospinal meningitis. His wife (Michele Morgan) rushes out to look for the local doctor, but all she finds is a wambling wreck (Gerard Philipe) who has not dared to push a pill since his wife died in a childbirth he drunkenly mismanaged...
...himself, because whenever he was asked about the exotic tidbits he was often seen munching, he invariably made a kelpish response (actually the goodies were tiny ricecakes sent from Japan by his mother). Gregarious Seaweed won mentions in the senior-yearbook voting for the lad having the Biggest Drag with Faculty and being the Most Frequent Weekender, ran third in the Finest Legs category. After graduating, Osawa went back to his homeland, prospered as a businessman, headed a movie company during World War II. He thrice topped all his classmates as the alumnus traveling farthest for a '25 reunion...
Lyric Productions' choice of Hotel Universe as its final effort of a hopeful first season is unfortunate. Unless Philip Barrie's wisps of philosophy are staged either with a sense of humor or with a sense of dedicated oddness, they can drag tediously. Since the director and cast seem dreadfully sober as they face the first hour or so, the current production remains dead until the bright second half of its long only...
...says, "when I got out of the car, and my feet absolutely couldn't move on the sidewalk. I saw a big black sign with bright gold lettering. I thought it said 'Orphan.' I never could spell very well. I know I cried. They had to drag me in by force. I tried to tell them I wasn't an orphan." Soon after that Norma Jeane began to stutter...