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...correct and atmospherically grubby, has under-estimated the need for Victorian naturalism in the settings for Earnest, which should never be designed by anyone but Cecil Beaton. The play is very carefully related to its background in life--Wilde even knows the address of John Worthing's town house. (Fen Lasell's formidable costumes are much more in the vein, because they appear impeccably "period...
Revue (which died of atrophy two years ago). In 1939 along came the Ice Capades, now the nation's largest, with two separate companies touring the U.S. (last year's gross: about $10 million). When Minneapolis Restaurateur Morris Chal-fen bought tiny Holiday Inc. in 1945, the Big Three had successfully tied up all major U.S. ice palaces...
...rededication are confined in most communities to lukewarm chicken luncheons and canned editorials, Maryland's Union News, Baltimore County's biggest weekly (circ. 12,000), decided this year to give readers a more piquant refresher course in press freedom. In a Page One editorial. Editor-Publisher W. Fen wick Keyser (Yale '35) confided that he put together a "front page which is by way of being a big joke to all of us fortunate people who enjoy the privileges of a free press." The joke: every news story on the page was bogus...
Moonfleet (M.G.M) has a fine midnight flavor of yawning graves, skeletons, gibbeted men, ghouls and things that go bump in the dark. When the sun is shining, the action is further embellished with slashing swordplay, wild chases over fen and moor, and an Soft, descent into the deepest well in Dorsetshire. The CinemaScope thriller is based on J. Meade Falkner's classic adventure story of British smugglers, and just as the novel itself was reminiscent of Robert Louis Stevenson, so the movie faithfully echoes other good movies: the graveyard encounter between boy and convict in Great Expectations is almost...
Died. Dixie Lee Crosby, 40, Tennessee-born cinemactress (Fox Follies of 1929, Love in Bloom, Redheads on Parade) who in 1930 married fen obscure singer at Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove named Harry ("Bing") Crosby; of cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. At the time she married Bing, newspapers headlined, DIXIE LEE MARRIES BAND SINGER, and a Hollywood producer warned: "You will have to support him for the rest of your life." As her husband's success grew (he is long since a multimillionaire), she retired from the theatrical limelight, bore four sons. Following an abdominal operation...