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...partners, former Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey took off on a monthlong, "entirely personal" air trip around the world, during which he will visit twelve countries. Cruising from port to port in the Mediterranean aboard Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' luxury yacht, Swedish Sphinx Greta Garbo spent her 50th birthday at sea. Confident that she would swim the English Channel round trip and non-stop to international acclaim, California's Florence Chadwick set out thoroughly greased from Dover, but after giving up a mile off the French coast, was beached by irate French customs officials, who took...
...filly Princesse Retta beaten in the Queen Mary Stakes, was kicked in the midriff and knocked flat by his own favorite filly, Martine, under the eyes of Queen Elizabeth, later saw Martine finish out of the money. Hiding behind dark glasses and displaying her customary distaste for photographers, Greta Garbo arrived in Monte Carlo, was photographed strolling the streets just before she boarded Greek Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' yacht, which was bound for Saudi Arabia, with stops along the way at Capri and Venice...
There are, to be sure, some genuine good things. The book, freely adapted from Ninotchka (also used as a Garbo movie), has bright moments of storytelling and spoofing. In its tale of a fanatical Soviet woman commissar-who on a mission to Paris responds to French life and American love-there are brighter lines than in most musicals. There are two or three good Cole Porter tunes, and now and then a good Cole Porter lyric. As Ninotchka, Cinemactress Hildegarde Neff is exotic and pleasing enough to get by without a voice; as Ninotchka's Hollywood agent...
...Greta Garbo's smash box-office comeback in 19-year-old Camille is breaking all records at New York's Normandie Theater and is also doing well in Miami Beach and Philadelphia. Impressed by the Swedish recluse's powerful draw, M-G-M has had the film withdrawn from the free museum circuit and is considering a nationwide release...
...defects. Composer Cole Porter consequently has had to write six new songs to substitute into his score--a score which, despite a jukebox hit called "All of You," is still indisputably inferior to his previous successes. And the book, a parody on Soviet ways adapted from the famous Greta Garbo movie Ninotchka, has undergone so much scene-shuffling and rewriting at the hands of co-author Abe Burrows that at one point he eliminated the title song itself. Thus, whereas most musicals play four weeks in just one try-out city, Silk Stockings has played three months in three different...