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...show, carried by CBS and ABC, had a cast headed by singers Tony Martin, Marion Marlowe and Martha Wright, who set the mood of remembrance with snapshots of Mamie over the years. Their songs, her favorites, were Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls, Lovely Lake Geneva, The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, Down Among the Sheltering Palms (as a dance team dressed as Mamie and Ike, pre-World War 1, cut figures on the screen), Till We Meet Again, Tiptoe Through the Tulips, I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy, Wunderbar...
Beauties of the Night (Franco-London; United Artists). "If a workman were sure of dreaming every night that he was a king," wrote Blaise Pascal, "I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who dreamt every night that he was a workman." Borrowing plots from great philosophers is a quick way to get out of the movie business, but this time the borrower is René Clair (Sous les Toits de Paris, Le Million), a man as skillful with pictures as Pascal was with ideas. The result is a wonderfully natty little reductio ad absurdum-"all bird...
...seemed pretty cool in its reactions. Some gallerygoers complained about Sutherland's deliberately ungainly compositions and harsh colors, wondered "what goes on in the head of a man who's always painting grasshoppers." Said an old lady, back for a second look at his gory Crucifixion: "I dreamt about it last night, and it's haunted me ever since." But for Sutherland fans it was a great moment. Said one student: "It's like meeting a fabulous relative you've always heard about but never met before...
...reward for America and for the free world will be as great as any victory in battle or in any campaign. The world-all the world-will again recognize the United States of America as the spiritual and material realization of the dreams that men have dreamt since the dawn of history...
...elderly pussies whose skill in exchanging tattle and insults is so practiced that it is sometimes hard to know which is speaking. When one has clawed the other a particularly deep swipe, she always follows up with the stinging antiseptic, e.g. "I do assure you, Millie, I never dreamt of hurting your feelings...