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LYSISTRATA (Caedmon). Disgusted with the 20-year-old Peloponnesian War, Aristophanes attacked the Greek "hawks" with volleys of ribaldry. In the celebrated tale of how women ended the war with a sex strike, Hermione Gingold slyly makes double entendres sound quadruple as the Athenian matron who urges the ladies to stay out of the bedrooms until their men get off the battlefields...
Harvey Middleman, Fireman. "Why shouldn't you feel guilty? Aren't you a normal American man?" asks Family Counselor Hermione Gingold. Thereby hangs the tale, and perhaps the whole significance, of Harvey Middleman-fireman, husband, father, and suburban schlemiel. His home, job, wife and children are all lovely in their way, but Harvey (Eugene Troobnick) detests taking out the garbage-for him the symbol of drab conformity. One day he carries a lissome blonde (Patricia Harty) from a burning brownstone. "I'm Harvey," he says hoarsely. "I'm Lois," she whispers, stirring in his arms. They...
Some of the guests at the London literary luncheon amused themselves by calculating that Oil Billionaires J. Paul Getty, 72, and Nubar Gulbenkian, 68, grew about $20,000 richer in the hour they sat absorbing asparagus souffle, boiled salmon and a monologue from their table partner, Actress Hermione Gingold. The party was to launch Gulbenkian's biography, Pantaraxia (loose translation from the Greek: keeping people on their toes), which tells how he enlarged the fortune accumulated in Middle Eastern oil by his late father Calouste ("Mr. Five Per Cent") Gulbenkian. When the two finally got off nose to nose...
...RATHER BE RICH. Another romantic mixup, another wayward heiress-but the familiar ingredients are whipped into a nice froth by Sandra Dee, Robert Goulet, Andy Williams, Hermione Gingold...
...RATHER BE RICH. In this surprisingly sprightly comedy, Sandra Dee occupies an acute romantic triangle with Andy Williams and Robert Goulet, while Hermione Gingold and Maurice Chevalier sharpen its points...