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...Diarmuid Devine, B.A., English master at Saint Michan's and Cuff (socalled for his swift classroom rabbit punch) is his seedy senior colleague, Timothy Stanislaus Heron, M.A., whose raveled gown flaps behind him "like broken black wings." According to Novelist Brian Moore, many moral Waterloos are lost on the playing fields of Saint Michan's. It is not a progressive school; in fact it is the most distressful college that has been seen since Dotheboys Hall. By confession and the cane, the clerical masters rule a cowed proletariat of boys and a middle class of lay masters...
...outset of Hallmark Hall of Fame's production of There Shall Be No Night, Katharine Cornell posed grandly before the camera in an "eggplant-colored chiffon velvet hostess gown" by Valentina and said to Charles Boyer: "Say something thrilling, Karoly. Something profound." That was quite an order for even so formidable a talent as Boyer's, considering the staggering handicaps of the script. In his 90-minute TV adaptation of the Robert E. Sherwood play, Radio Writer Morton (The Eternal Light] Wishengrad shed little light on the character of the Nobel Prizewinning medical scientist who has a hard...
...Assistants throw tantrums, models faint from exhaustion, Dior himself bursts into tears of emotion. On opening day, he takes refuge in the models' dressing room, a madhouse of half-clad models, hurrying dressers, seamstresses making last-minute adjustments. As each girl hurries back in, gets out of one gown and dons a new one ("girdle-to-girdle" time is calculated at three minutes), Dior questions her anxiously about the reaction, kisses her warmly if her model has been a success...
Norway's Princess Astrid, bedecked in décolleté gown, tiara and decorations (including Norway's highest, the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav), celebrated her 25th birthday at the home of her yachtsman father, Crown Prince Olav. More than ever a public figure, Astrid has ranked as her country's "first lady" since her mother's death in 1954, is kept constantly bustling in good works...
...rest of his life vainly trying to imitate himself, died in 1956 without having produced another success. In this performance by the Paris Opéra-Comique, an excellent cast is headed by Soprano Berthe Mommart, whose light-textured voice fits the title role like a sheer Dior gown...