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...Million Bonanaza in Glitter Gulch, Paradise A and Paradise...
...Rourke; Vera-Ellen and a tap-dancing reporter in 1953's Call Me Madam). As the princess in Paramount's new picture, Roman Holiday, the newcomer named Audrey Hepburn gives the popular old romantic nonsense a reality it has seldom had before. Amid the rhinestone glitter of Roman Holiday's make-believe, Paramount's new star sparkles and glows with the fire of a finely cut diamond. Impertinence, hauteur, sudden repentance, happiness, rebellion and fatigue supplant each other with lightning speed on her mobile, adolescent face...
This modern age has swamped the aspiring beauty with a dazzling treasure to glitter. Indeed, this is but a glorified hangover from primitive cultures. Why even the Ubangi maidens, frolicking around the breadfruit trees, knew the value of the earhoop. Civilization has reduced the size but this season offers mobiles, ceramics, circlets, danglers, buttons, and enamelled flowerettes...
...tragedy is that the educated few who climb from darkness to light are, at this point, more of a problem to the white man than are the jungle savages. Seeing for the first time the glitter of the white man's world, stirred by his literature (the Bible, Rousseau, Jefferson) but stunned by the gap between precept and practice, often shunned because of their color, impulsive and impatient, they are likely to become the dupes of Communism. Writing from South Africa recently, Michael Ardizzone, a British journalist, reported a conversation with his Negro office messenger-a grown man named...
Road to Riches. For all this, Diane-who also calls herself Lady Diana Harrington-never lost her expensive glitter. She wore a simple dark blue suit, a diamond-studded bracelet and a diamond-studded clip. She exuded French perfume and trailed a "breath of spring" mink stole with the air of a duchess dragging a gunny sack. After scarcely more than one startled look, Assistant District Attorney Anthony J. Liebler was moved to describe her as the "golden girl of café society." He grew more eloquent during the arraignment...