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...Lush Budget Production, offers four minutes' worth of opulent sets and a whole spring collection of Edith Head's most improbable costumes. But What a Way itself is so extravagantly overdrawn that the audience well may wonder where parody leaves off and plot begins. To furbish a frail spoof with all that Hollywood upholstery seems a bit like crossing a mountain stream aboard the Queen Mary-and why bother? Shirley MacLaine is a girl who can go for miles just paddling her own canoe...
...ideal solution is to make a new version of one of the better shows (such as La Belle Helene): in Agate's words, "to furbish up the old sparkle and avoid substituting a new one, to stick to the operette and to keep the thing French." The solution arrived at for "Albert Marre's production," as the current venture is billed, is to tinker and tamper and mess and fuss and fiddle and diddle and hope for the best. The result not surprisingly, is a galimafree, or, as we say in America, a hash...
...Canada's CCF socialists, although they still had their leader, Schoolmasterish Major J. Coldwell, had already called a national convention Aug. 19 to furbish up a new platform. This will be their tenth convention...
...world in matters of art. But last week Italy gratefully accepted the Mexican Government's offer to lend-lease its three master muralists (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros). The big three will help convert Italy's gaudy Mussolini Era civic architecture to the uses of democracy. Their assignment: to furbish "Forum Mussolini," the Duce's red brick and white marble memorial to himself on the banks of the Tiber (now a U.S. Army rest camp), where young Fascists used to flock to learn fencing and fawning...
...builder. Published on Sunday only, News Of The World under Riddell management became a bulky budget of news from the British police courts. Maintaining only a small editorial staff of his own. Publisher Riddell drew the mass of his material from reporters on daily papers who were encouraged to furbish up their most sensational stories of the week and send them along to News Of The World's offices in Bouverie Street. It was not long before News Of The World was as common a phenomenon of the British Sunday morning as church bells. Full accounts of the nation...