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...take some doing. Packing up their exhibition in Kamakura last week (for a further display in Manhattan this winter), Noguchi and his wife had no idea whether the show was a success or a flop. "Japanese in general still prefer the traditional," said Shirley. But the crowds were big and the critics seemed to be getting the idea. When one Japanese professor said that he thought all Noguchi's work looked like doughnuts, the art critic for Tokyo's Yomiuri Shimbun rapped back: "I urge him to see this show, because even doughnuts make good...
...Egghead Vote. At first, crowds were small, far smaller than Eisenhower's, far smaller than Harry Truman drew in 1948. In his first attempt as a whistle-stopper he was a flop. He got better, by dint of practice, but his best performances were in set speeches, to big audiences...
Last week Director Joe Mankiewicz (All About Eve, A Letter to Three Wives) finished shooting a $2,000,000 picture that takes a calculated risk of being a box-office flop. Julius Caesar is the first effort by M-G-M to film Shakespeare since Romeo and Juliet lost more than a quarter of a million dollars in 1936. Shakespeare is supposed to be box-office poison, but Mankiewicz and Producer John Houseman think they have a sure-fire script. Says Mankiewicz: "It's a good, rip-snorting piece of blood & thunder coupled with eternally new and true...
...conclusion: Stevenson, like a shooting star. ¶Adlai Stevenson, a pharmacist in Greenville, Texas, joined the national Stevensons-for-Eisenhower Club. Texas Adlai, no kin, though he was named for the Democratic candidate's grandfather (Vice President under Grover Cleveland), said he thinks there is "too much flip-flop stuff going on up in Washington." ¶Four big names in he world of arts and letters announced in New York that they were switching from Eisenhower to Stevenson. The four: Producer-Playwright George Abbott, Author Edna Ferber, Librettist-Producer Oscar Hammerstein II, Producer Irene Selznick. Two big Southern newspapers...
...first it looked as if Dwight Eisenhower's foray into South Carolina might be a flop. The crowd that turned up at the Columbia airport to greet him was small; on the way into the capital (pop. 90,000) with smiling Governor Jimmy