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Bundle of Joy (RKO Radio). The original of this movie, released in 1939, was called Bachelor Mother, a title bearing such intimations of immorality that the studio had to fight the censors to retain it. The movie was a spoof of bastardy. But with Ginger Rogers and David Niven starred in it and with Hollywood's boy wonder of the day, 26-year-old Garson Kanin, directing, the spoof was wholesome, human and hilarious. Bundle of Joy is wholesome. It is an energetic attempt to prove that what was done so deftly in the '30s, Hollywood...
...Hope Chevy Show (Dec. 28, 9 p.m., NBC), on film, will show Hope, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Mantle, Peggy King, Jerry Colonna and the Purdue Glee Club entertaining U.S. troops in Alaska...
...from last season's Broadway near miss, A Roomful of Roses (TIME, Oct. 31, 1955), the movie describes a skirmish in the unending teenagers v. parents' revolution. The rebel, in this case, is the maladjusted daughter of divorced parents. At 15, the youngster visits her remarried mother (Ginger Rogers) for the first time in eight years. Her mother and stepfather (Michael Rennie) sympathetically figure that the hostile, resentful girl is merely a little bundle of misery. The boy next door is less sympathetic. "Am I losing my charge," he wonders aloud, after she holds...
...SOFT DRINKS will be tried by root-beer maker Charles E. Hires Co. This winter Hires will test ginger ale in Philadelphia area under brand name of "Purock." Scheduled for spring trials: grape, orange, perhaps cola flavors...
...unstoppered hell of arty cocktail parties and the drawing-room purgatories of upper-caste Britons living beyond their unearned incomes. The book's brittle, so-weary-of-it-all lament, which only a Bea Lillie could salvage, too often turns the glint of champagne sparkle into ginger-beer fizz.. But Author Manning has an unerring wit that probably comes unforced to a contributor to Punch, and she sees to it, at novel's end, that each of the doves has been properly plucked...