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...Love and Let Love" is the eminent French playwright's latest work; an earlier one, "Affairs of State," is still on Broadway, and the two may be compared in that they are both vehicles for Hollywood stars. Unfortunately, where Celeste Holm and June Havoc have been able to carry the earlier play, the efforts of Ginger Rogers are not enough to combat the script Verneuil now offers...
...tried to get the same effect by concentrating his fire on two Republican amendments: the Butler-Hope amendment, wiping out slaughter controls on beef, and the Capehart amendment guaranteeing business a pre-Korea profit, which the President characterized as "like a bulldozer, crashing aimlessly through existing price formulas, leaving havoc in its wake...
...open-air festival courtyard raised special problems. Perpignan's tramontane, a strong, cold wind that sweeps along the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean, kept the orchestra grabbing for their music, finally made them clip the sheets to the racks with clothespins. The wind also played havoc with the acoustics, made the most desirable spots those on a chairless balcony above the platform. Astute music lovers sacrificed comfort, sat on the balcony floor, their feet dangling over the edge. At the second night's concert, the tramontane brought an unseasonable downpour that soaked the motionless audience to the skin before...
...must preach a social gospel, but we must first of all preach the Word . . . To call the wrath of God a metaphor, to smoothly rationalize Hell, to smother the Cross in sentimentality is to play havoc with Christianity; you may have a religion left, but it is not the religion of the New Testament...
Leaving to take her strip-tease talent on a tour of England, Gypsy Rose Lee obliged shipboard photographers with samples (see cut), called her sister June (Affairs of State) Havoc to get in on the bon voyage act for plugs all around...