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Manhattan's E. and A. Silberman Gal leries, slated for round-the-country museum showings, and a whole parade of one-man and group shows in the galleries. Says Manhattan Gallery Owner Catherine Viviano: "There are great things coming out of England, more exciting and more alive than have been seen in years...
...favorite popular comedy of the season. It matters little that, far from being a sound play, Auntie Mame is really no play at all. For it will go fast and far on the inherent appeal of its chief character and the tremendous vivacity and skill of the gal who plays her. Everybody enjoys a lovable lunatic, and Rosalind Russell is a delight as the kindhearted madwoman of Beekman Place, bringing up her small nephew in a world of sidecars for breakfast, living herself in sumptuous dishabille, now marrying, now dispensing with marriage, now rescuing her nephew from a stuffy brand...
...that I wouldn't have to explain to my children - aged 13, 10 and 6 - why that gorgeous gal is sitting beneath the Christmas tree with nothing on but her rhinestones and rabbit fur (presumably Santa Claus caught her minus even those), I tore the page out to show to my husband - who will no doubt need no explanation...
SUPER-GRADE GASOLINES are going over far better than expected. Esso Standard Oil, Humble Oil, Continental Oil, Sun Oil and others who have introduced hopped-up (about 100 octane), more expensive (up to 3? more per gal.) gas for the new higher-compression auto engines, report that sales are running from 15% to 20% of total business v. expected level...
...wasn't there and swears that his son wasn't either, v. the unwed mother, who was there and moans that Fernandel's son was, too. Fernandel won't sell bread to his friends turned foes, and the scenes swarm relentlessly, with so many Proven-gal provincials running around like so many Provencal provincials with their bread cut off. The effect might be funnier if time and France's postwar moviemakers had not made stereotypes of them all-the patriarchal mayor, the meddlesome postmaster, the bungling gendarmes, the omnipresent and omniscient priest...