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...members of the Class of '51 were little boys, Shirley Temple was the the biggest box-office attraction, and the king of England tossed away an Empire for an American divorcee. That year three of the most popular entertainers of the day, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, and Irving Berlin, Pooled their talent in a picture called "Follow the Fleet." It was a slick, sophisticated job, and it provided its stars with an excellent vehicle for their song-and-dance routines...
...writers had been loosely united ten months ago by the National Committee for Liaison and Action of the Middle Classes, which counts 7,000,000 French men & women in its fold. Its spokesman is a 54-year-old Parisian named Leon Gingembre, whose name matches his personality (gingembre means ginger). Tall, thin, grey, dynamic, Gingembre, a small manufacturer of pins & needles, has bushy eyebrows and the eyes of a zealot, switches his wide smile on & off like a lamp...
...Recipe: half a lime, jigger of vodka, add ginger beer to taste...
...Gentleman from Athens (by Emmet Lavery; produced by Martin Gosch) has Ginger Rogers' mother involved in two $1,000,000 lawsuits; on the radio last September she denounced it as Communist propaganda. On Broadway last week it seemed, with its plea for peace on earth and good will toward men, about as Communistic as the average Christmas card. And just about as creative...
Lavery is in Boston for the opening of his new comedy. "The Gentleman from Athens," which aroused a considerable stir when Lela Rogers mother of Ginger, termed it Communistic on America's Town Meeting of the Air. The producer and author have filed a $2 million libel suit...