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...believed. The Kerr-Hilton, as Jean Kerr calls her home, is both the sum and summary of its contents, a brick and half-timber Tudor-Spanish architectural error on the edge of Long Island Sound. Like the Kerrs, it sits squarely in the suburbs, but its outlines are in fairyland. Built by a rich automotive inventor on the original foundations of the Larchmont Shore Club stables, it looks like the Castle of Otranto, reaching high with turrets and towers and a cupola. It also looks as easy to clean as the lower Bowery, and Mrs. Kerr moans that a Cunard...
...only intermittently funny. Now undergoing its third version as a movie, the film is derived from a 1931 play by Carl (The Blue Angel) Zuckmayer, who co-authored the present screenplay. It is the story of a lonely, jobless German shoemaker whose drab world turns into a fairyland of wealth, popularity and authority as soon as he dons the dashing and highly illegal uniform of an army captain...
...Book-of-the-Month Club Judge John Mason Brown, "John's foible isn't name-dropping, it's name-wonder. He's never got over the mica that's in names. He has a child's sense of giving a party, a fairyland belief in celebrities." One fairyland fable who slips frequently in and out of the house on East 62nd Street is Greta Garbo, the "G.G." to whom John Gunther dedicated Inside Russia Today, along with "G. and V." (Socialite George Schlee and his wife, onetime Fashion Designer Valentina, who introduced Garbo...
...abode of iron desolation, the great rivers in their beds like frosted steel; or the children at Christmas in the White House, "a thrill of ... exaltation and rapture ... to see all the gifts like a materialized fairyland arrayed"; or a trip in a battleship to Panama, and a petty officer's cry for "Three cheers for Theodore Roosevelt-the typical American citizen!" T.R. had liked that-"the way in which they thought of the American President...
Well-brought-up Author Gaskell sees her fairyland through a kaleidoscope made of prunes and prisms; she might profit if she could spend a semester as an exchange student in Berthe Grimault's barnyard...