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Under a Manhattan auctioneer's gavel went 65 gold, gem-studded snuffboxes and watches collected by the late great Tenor Enrico Caruso...
...meeting in the red. Seeing the handwriting on the wall, rich and prosperous Pimlico announced that the value of the Preakness would be lowered from $100,000 to $75,000 this spring; Belmont Park had done likewise with its Belmont Stakes (leaving the Kentucky Derby the only $100,000 gem in racing's Triple Crown...
Alexander Dumas would smile at his characters in this gem: they are all as he would have them, exceptionally good or horrendously evil. Vincent Price as Richelieu is oily and sinister, with just a dash of greed. Frank Morgan as Louis XIII is weak and vacillating. The heroine is June Allyson, who is totally incapable of portraying anyone not pure and naive. Lana Turner plays Lady de Winter, the cruel, unscrupulous femme fatale; she is grotesquely miscast, but retains a certain innate charm...
Dartmouth's big nope lies in its backs, for the last two weeks have produced a series of runs and passes which dazzled all comers. McLaughry found a finely cut gem in John Clayton, sophomore quarterback, who has thrown all of the Green's touchdown passes...
This latest Hart gem centers about two antagonistic groups: a playwright on the one hand, and a crew of theatrical angels, directors, and actresses on the other. And it would appear that Mr. Hart has felt for too long that 1) playwrights fear to say what they believe with daring and originality, and that 2) theatrical folk are tough and reasonably unscrupulous cutthroats. All this Mr. Hart has now said...