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Quite apart from Kay Kendall, Les Girls is a fine musical comedy-easily the best that Hollywood has put together since An American in Paris and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (also M-G-M productions). The picture has only a second-drawer score by Cole Porter, but Director George Cukor has shrewdly managed to make the least of it, and to make the most of a marvelous run of creative luck. Gene Kelly dances less than usual, and rather better. Mitzi Gaynor, whose face most Hollywood cameramen have in the past been careful to undertook, is revealed to have...
Tainted Bait. In Denver, Virgil Wilson, 25, wandered into a U.S. Secret Service agency, lifted $10 in coins from a desk drawer, smiled pleasantly at unconcerned employees, was nabbed as he left, hauled off to jail and booked for possession of counterfeit money...
...surprised reporters followed Hagerty to the President's office for Ike's first such unscheduled news conference.* They found President Eisenhower waiting behind his desk, a drawer half open to support a stack of note cards scrawled on in heavy black grease pencil...
Like his rivals in the business, 51-year-old Conductor Lanin has a pool of several hundred musicians. On a busy night he may have as many as 25 Lester Lanin groups blaring his bouncy arrangements from Maine to Maryland. He himself shows up mainly at top-drawer affairs, e.g., last week a Newport dinner dance in honor of Perle Mesta, before that at Southampton's Tennis Ball and Newport's Tiffany Ball. There are enough such affairs to keep Lanin on the bandstand most nights of the year...
Explaining Tom Spies's lack of a home, an associate says: "Tom has absolutely no pride of ownership. He takes the medals he gets, throws them in a drawer and never looks at them again." Despite his footloose way of life, Dr. Spies keeps a close watch on his patients; when he is away from Birmingham, he phones daily to check on their progress. Patients are devoted to him for another reason. Almost alone in his profession. Dr. Spies is careful never to use a word of more than two syllables if he can help...