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Jupiter's Darling (M-G-M). Esther Williams' pictures are generally just so much water over the dame. This one tries to be different. Esther spends more than half of it on dry land. She even tries to act-a spectacle almost as alarming as that of the Burmese fish that climbs trees...
...story, a sort of musical cutoff on The Road to Rome, by Playwright Robert Sherwood, is an amiable bit of pig Latin. Esther is cast as Amytis, betrothed of Fabius Cunctator (George Sanders), the Roman dictator, in 216 B.C. But Esther is bored. Then all at once Hannibal (Howard Keel) crushes the Roman legions and marches on the city. "Ah," cries Esther, "wotta day!" She sneaks out to meet the enemy on her own terms. Hannibal orders her put to death. Esther takes off her cloak. He orders her put to bed. The tactical problems she presents are so engrossing...
...much for history. By way of entertainment, the picture offers Esther poised in classical scanties by the side of a lotus pool. And in case Esther isn't enough, there is a herd of elephants painted blue, green, yellow, lavender and gamboge...
When another reporter appeared at the Chambers farm. Esther Chambers sat him down in front of the kitchen fireplace to wait while Chambers went to his typewriter, put a piece of yellow paper in it, and wrote: "The saddest single factor about the Hiss case is that nobody can change the facts as they are known. Neither Alger Hiss nor I, however much we might wish to do so, can change these facts. They are there forever. That is the inherent tragedy of this case...
...professional Africa hand, but a good observing traveler, is Esther Warner. Her SEVEN DAYS To LOMALAND (269 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.50) is the story of a seven-day hike she made across Liberia to witness the native trial-by-ordeal of a houseboy accused of thievery. Her account is charming and clear-eyed...