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...finale the silly tent one. At times the young Baxter appears thoroughly ludicrous, but often, as when he sings love ballads, Willy--and that is just what he is most of the time--imagines marriage with his true puppy love, a vision enacted in full regalia. Bride, groom, and a score of bridesmaids attired in pink march under the spotlights to the front of the stage...
Married. King Farouk of Egypt, 31; and Narriman Sadek, 17, commoner daughter of one of the groom's civil servants; he for the second time, she for the first; in a suburb of Cairo (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Mogens Skot-Hansen, a hustling Danish moviemaker, who persuaded a producer to make Dorothy McGuire a U.N. translator in Mister 880 ("She is a nice good girl and gives us a good name"). Thanks to his efforts, Bing Crosby, playing a journalist in the forthcoming Here Comes the Groom, will be shown at work on a story about U.N. relief work; Joseph Cotten, cast as a doctor in Peking Express, will be working for the U.N.'s World Health Organization; in The Day the Earth Stood Still, a visitor from another planet (a sort of interplanetary Skot-Hansen) will...
...Groom Wore Spurs (Fidelity; Universal-International) tries to poke fun at a singing cowboy movie star (Jack Carson) who is a bit of a stinker, fears horses and cannot sing. Though the idea seems worth a farce, it is clumsily turned, geared to a creaky romance (involving Ginger Rogers as a lawyer) and powered by melodramatic nonsense. The joke proves to be not so much on western heroes as on Hollywood farceurs...
...bold bridegroom of Crete came up for trial last week. Although mustachioed Constantine Kephaloyannis had capped his spectacular kidnaping of Tassoula Petracogeorgi last August (TIME, Sept. 4) by marrying her in a lonely monastery on fabled Mount Ida, Tassoula's father was not appeased. He had the groom thrown in jail...