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Pure Farce. Modern readers will find that The Lion holds up remarkably well. Its plot is pure farce, involving a phony British nobleman's quest for the hand of an American heiress, a social-climbing American mother, and a visiting English lady named Mrs. Wollope, who like Mrs. Trollope is collecting data on the domestic manners of the Americans. In the course of the play, Colonel Wildfire helps rout the phony nobleman-and Mrs. Wollope as well. Sample dialogue...
Married. J osephine Abercrombie, 28, shapely, blonde Houston horsewoman (winner of ten of eleven firsts for harness ponies in last year's National Horse Show), heiress to a $50 million Texas oil fortune; and H. Burnett Robinson, 36, manager of the Abercrombie racing stable; she for the third time, he for the second; in Versailles...
...years Harvester Heiress Mrs. Anita McCormick Elaine, cousin of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, was Chicago's Lady Bountiful. Before she died last February at 87 (TIME, Feb. 22), "Aunt Anita" had given away more than $10 million; even so, her estate topped $35 million. Her largess was distributed left and right, though in recent years, mostly left, e.g., $50,000 to Henry Wallace's Progressive Party presidential campaign...
...well as love with a hoodlum; on Philco TV Playhouse, Eva Marie Saint was convincing as another tortured girl who finally married a man old enough to be her father; on Lux Video Theater, Marilyn Erskine brought surprising authority to the role of self-conscious Catherine Sloper in The Heiress. The dozen male actors had a fine time on Studio One's Twelve Angry Men. The play, by Reginald Rose, started out with an old idea (what happens in a jury room) but turned it into a crisp and exciting melodrama. Franchot Tone got a baleful malevolence into...
...Video Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). The Heiress, with Vincent Price, Marilyn Erskine...