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...opening play--'Ways and Means"--is typical Coward, taking place in a luxurious bedroom on Cote D'Azur. It is slick, refined, and witty--at times too much so. The famed Coward vencer tends to get so shiny that no other values can be seen through the glitter...
...Tell. Despite the new glitter of big names, one of the most popular narrators of "kidisks" is Los Angeles' Mrs. Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen, 74, a bright-eyed grandmother who records the folk tales of her native Norway. (In 1911, while teaching school, she wrote them down in a book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon.) She had been telling the tales to her students and grandchildren for years but did not record them until 1944, and then for the Library of Congress. When RCA Victor heard the records, it hired...
...good a Presbyterian to be overly impressed by his church's new pre-eminence and the block-long queues that often form outside it on Sundays. Says he. "Mere size doesn't matter." He would like the world to realize "that Hollywood isn't just a glitter spot; it is also a remarkably Godly spot. The press has given a distorted picture of our community. There is an enormous spiritual hunger here, and one of the finest groups of people in the world. Do you know that more divinity students are coming from Hollywood than any other...
Father was put on film when the play was already an enormous success. It is filmed like a success; it has the glitter, the good humor and the rather beefy adroitness of a success. The chances are a hundred to one that it will be a success...
...Most of the nights were lit by a theatrically mellow moon. But as the shoreline died away, the passengers had little to look at but themselves. The few inveterate voyagers among them recognized that nothing about the Queen Mary had changed quite so much as her passengers. The prewar glitter of the salon list was dimmed. Gone were the orchids and the ermine. Few British escapists, yearning after the fleshpots of Manhattan night life, rubbed magnificent elbows with U.S. escapists returning home from the fleshpots of Europe. Few colossal deals would be consummated in the hushed and paneled smoking room...