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Married. Lilli Palmer, 43, German-born actress of stage (Bell, Book & Candle) and screen (Body and Soul, Notorious Gentleman); and Carlos Thompson, 34, Argentine-bred cinemactor (Flame and the Flesh); she for the second time (her first: Actor Rex Harrison), he for the first; in Küsnacht, Switzerland...
Gable was a Yankee sea captain in the "nigger business." but has now repented of his slave-trading ways, and settled down as a Spanish-mossbacked Southern gentleman whose vassals are so happy that they all mass by ol' man river to sing hallelujah whenever Gable's steamboat comes round the bend. Yvonne is also cooing Gable's glory, though in more intimate circumstances. The trouble comes from Sidney Poitier, a pampered boss Negro whom Gable raised as a son; Sidney has turned bitter, would like nothing better than to plant kindly Massa Clark...
...short address; with the house lights half up, Professor Barnabas speaks to the audience as though addressing one of his biology classes--an effective solution indeed. For Part III ("The Thing Happens") Moss drew largely on the final portion. In Part IV (the long-winded "Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman") and Part V ("As Far as Thought Can Reach"), he concentrated on the first and last sections...
...most subtle" Serpent she slightly lingers with superb effect over the sibilants that Shaw carefully placed in her speeches. Tolan (Cain, and Zozim) brings real fire to the role of the world's first transgressor of the Fifth and Sixth Commandments. Moss (Prof. Barnabas, Accountant General, and the Elderly Gentleman) manages to make individual his three well-seasoned men. John Granger (Strephon) and Dorothy Whitney (Chloe) round out the cast...
Next day, Homer Capehart, still smarting under Kerr's angry reply to "the midget" from Indiana, discovered that the Oklahoman had prudently revised the Congressional Record transcript to read that Ike had no "fiscal brains." That, said Capehart, shows exactly what "kind of gentleman" Bob Kerr is. Then Capehart did a doubletake on another Kerr line in the Congressional Record from the previous day's debate. Kerr: "I do not say that the President has no brains at all. I reserve that broad and sweeping accusation for some of my cherished colleagues in this body...