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Bernice Judis, manager of Manhattan's radio station WNEW, has a publicist's knack for making news with the unusual. She has spiced her programing with such off-beat shows as José Ferrer Presents Shakespeare and A Treasury of the Spoken Word, featuring recordings by Bernard Shaw and James Joyce. Last week Manager Judis began a new show called Frankly Esoteric (Sun. 10 p.m.), which she thinks will appeal to no more than 2% of WNEW's listeners. Described as "the last word in avant-garde art," Frankly Esoteric offered such noncommercial items as Gertrude Stein...
...alliance modeled after NATO, has got nowhere, partly because the U.S. wants to delay such an alliance, and partly because Indonesia's leaders, like India's, still dream of a Third Force position between the Communist and the anti-Communist worlds. Recently, two young Filipino veterans, Jaime Ferrer and Eleuterio Adevoso, had an idea: Why not bring Southeast Asian veterans together as private citizens, bypassing governments? Last week in Manila, 33 delegates and observers, representing the veterans of nine countries from Formosa to Australia, assembled for a discussion of regional security...
Filming the life story of French Painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) posed a serious make-up problem for Director John Huston and Actor José Ferrer. Toulouse-Lautrec was a dwarf who stood 4 ft. 8 in., and Ferrer, who plays the part, is 5 ft. 11. The solution: Ferrer plays the part on his knees. Last week as the film, Moulin Rouge, neared completion in London, Ferrer showed photographers the "torture boots" that enable him to walk like a dwarf. Few movie stars since the days of Lon Chancy have submitted to such complicated and elaborately painful...
Each boot is a leather "saddle" which supports Ferrer's thigh, knee and upper leg when his knees are bent. The boots themselves are supported by a canvas shoulder harness, which pulls the calves of both legs tightly against his thighs. Fitted to the bottom of the knees are fake shoes. Obviously, only camera angles which do not show Ferrer's real feet (i.e., front and close-up views) can be used. Since the boots are tight and painful-pressure on his kneecaps cuts off blood circulation-Ferrer wears them for only 20 minutes at a time, keeps...
...London, Actor José Ferrer announced that he would take a couple of seasons' holiday from the New York stage to prevent people from getting tired of his face. "Audiences can see too much of an actor. An actor owes it to them to withdraw gracefully on occasion...