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First-rate historicals are still being published, e.g., Edith Simon's The Golden Hand and Alfred Duggan's The Little Emperors (see below). But that many readers want them that good is doubtful. The big demand is for the kind of historical that neither engages the mind nor disturbs the emotions, at least not the higher ones. The historicals getting the big promotion buildups this winter have the competent and predictable plots, the busty heroines, the mixture of sex and violence that challenges the movies and television...
...entire Mocambo, Sunset Strip's expensive playspot, complete with two orchestras, three bars, wine list and kitchen. Among the items which impressed the social reporters: imported 10-gallon hats for the guest list of 300, which included cinema's great and near great plus Parisienne Songstress Edith Piaf, Doris Duke, Queen Mother Nazli of Egypt, and Hotelman Conrad Hilton; 115 Cadillacs in the parking lot; five detectives hired to guard an estimated $2,000,000 worth of party jewelry; a 5 a.m. breakfast of ham & eggs and champagne; the tab for the night, which came...
...York's Daniel Reed and John Taber, Ohio's Thomas A. Jenkins, Massachusetts' Joseph W. Martin, Edith Nourse Rogers and Richard B. Wigglesworth, Kansas' Clifford Hope, New Jersey's Charles A. Wolverton, Michigan's Jesse P. Wolcott...
...juvenile leads are handsome and debonair, while Dame Edith Evans makes a formidable Lady Bracknell and Mar garet Rutherford a comical Miss Prism...
Bing and Bob, dressed in kilts, sing one number called Hoot Mon. Dorothy Lamour models a succession of silk and cloth-of-gold sarongs designed by Hollywood's Edith Head. There is also a shipwreck, a headhunters' ceremonial, and an erupting volcano. Road to Bali does not always run a smooth comedy course, but it has some diverting detours...