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...month's concert tour of Europe, at Paris' Palais de Chaillot, Crooner Nat ("King") Cole packed in the locals, racked up a whopping $10,000 gross in one big night. The house was his, in some individual cases hysterically, and foremost among his backstage admirers was glamorous Grandma Marlene Dietrich, who this week will begin her own tour of West Germany...
Pollyanna (Walt Disney; Buena Vista), a novel for nice young ladies, published in 1913, by a refined New England novelist named Eleanor H. Porter, was an irresistible tearjerker that drenched the pillows of grandma's generation and added to the language a new word for the sort of softheaded optimist who can see no evil, especially in the mirror, and who hysterically insists on confusing goo with good. The story distilled Victorian sentiment to its treacly essence, and readers of all ages lapped it up. More than a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, and by 1920 the book...
...most twittering lovebirds of the year. Remington Typewriter Heiress Gamble Benedict, 19. and her Rumanian-born ex-chauffeur. Andrei Porumbeanu. 35, rushed off from Manhattan to South Carolina with matrimony in mind. Gamble's watchful grandma, Katharine Harper Benedict, soon swung into action, successfully blocked their plans to marry in South Carolina. But Granny could do little to halt issuance of a marriage license to the couple in North Carolina, where they then journeyed. Technically, Andrei had run off with the ward of a Manhattan court, but. armed with proof of his very recent Mexican divorce. Porumbeanu made "Gambi...
Planning a return to West German stages after a 30-year absence, Berlin-born Glamour Girl Marlene Dietrich, 55. was aware that her'reception might be chilly. Reason: during and after World War II, Grandma Marlene damned Hitler and his works so roundly that many Germans still believe she is downright anti-German. Marlene's impending return created a spate of mumbling in the West German press. She shrugged it off: "The only thing I'm really afraid of is eggs. I have a swans-down coat, and if an egg ever hits...
...like new. They can also turn Rembrandt's Night Watch into a Day Watch, expose an extra pair of ears on the Van Eyck brothers' Adoration of the Lamb, or transform Brueghel's Hunters in the Snow from a haunting evocation of winter dusk into a Grandma Moses-type picture of sparkling noontime cheer. The restorer's results are unquestionably dramatic, but is the drama comedy or tragedy...