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Divorced. By Esther Williams, 35, cinemermaid: Ben Gage, 42, manufacturer, onetime radio actor-announcer; after twelve years of marriage, three children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Alimony awarded to Esther: $12 a year...
...youngest men ever admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. In Washington he was an attorney for the Securities & Exchange Commission, later for the U.S. Maritime Commission and the War Shipping Administration. He also taught law at George Washington University. One of his students was pretty Esther Yanovsky, who, says Pike, "got an A and the professor." They were married in 1942 -both such staunch agnostics that they wrote their own wedding ceremony, omitting any reference...
...Charles St. Actors Company has given The Grass Harp a rather beautiful, lyrical production. The small stage, faced by the audience at both ends, seems exactly the thing for conveying the intimate lonliness of four characters who retreat into a treehouse; Esther Small's sets--especially the massive tree, but also the not-quite-perfectly-shuttered living room--provide extraordinarily fitting play areas and suggest even a forest without seeming cramped. Resourceful lighting--making use of darkness, candles, and even flashlights also takes full creative advantage of the possibilities of a small theater. Between the sets and the lighting...
...Story begins when Esther Costello, an eight-year-old Irish girl, finds a cache of grenades in a ruined farmhouse and accidentally detonates them, killing her mother. The explosion does the girl no actual physical harm, but the shock leaves her deaf, dumb and blind. Five years later, an American woman (Joan Crawford) with plenty of money and nothing to do-she has recently walked out on her unfaithful husband (Rossano Brazzi) -takes the child (Heather Sears) on maternal impulse, and with the help of some therapists teaches her to hear, speak and see with her hands...
From there on, the film becomes a rather weird combination of the lives of Helen Keller and Trilby. Esther turns out to be a lovely and precocious girl, and when the newspapers get the story of her amazing development, her guardian is knocked off her feet by a mailbag full of invitations to speak before civic and religious organizations. She accepts a few of them, and before long she and Esther are major personalities on the lecture circuit. It is only a step from there to raising funds for other handicapped children, and before long Guardian Crawford finds herself...