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...Hauges, who had free Government housing and low living expenses, put in 70% of their salaries to build their collection. Says Gratia: "We were always broke." But today Victor Hauge is the proud possessor of the collection's gem, an ink-on-silk painting by Northern Sung Dynasty Painter Li Lung-mien, so rare that the Japanese government has declared it a national treasure. At their home in Falls Church, Va., Osborne and Gratia can trot out genuine Ming dishes for company. Says Gratia: "We don't regret a single thing we bought-only the things we didn...
...performance as the reporter clearly underlines the newsman's disgust at the facts he uncovers. The supporting cast is also excellent, without any exception. Keenan Wynn gives a particularly fine performance as a sardonic and unprincipled executive, and former television comedian Ed Wynn presents something of a small acting gem as the faintly comic radio station owner who gave Fuller his start in the business. But everybody who worked on The Great Man deserves some compliments for their taste and restraint. They have put together a very good little picture. --THOMAS K. SCHWABACHER
...Beers syndicate. Retail diamond jewelry prices will rise about 10% this year, following 5% hike in 1956, and industrial diamonds will go even higher. Demand is outstripping supply largely because U.S., which buys two-thirds of world's diamonds, last year imported peak $159 million worth of gem diamonds...
...Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Adventure in Diamonds, true story of Dutch gem merchants and Nazi plunderers, with Gary Merrill, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Flemyng (color...
Arsenic and Old Lace is a delightfully funny play. Neither age nor the not-quite-first-rate present production obscures more than a trifle of Mr. Kesselring's mad theatical gem...