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Churchill was working five or six hours a day, eating heartily, and doughtily disregarding the advice of his doctors to stay on the wagon. Among the visitors: Tory Chief Whip Patrick Buchan-Hepburn (usually consulted on Cabinet changes), Housing Minister Harold Macmillan, and Labor Minister Sir Walter Monckton...
...commoner's arms (Olivia de Havilland and a handsome pilot in 1943's Princess O'Rourke; Vera-Ellen and a tap-dancing reporter in 1953's Call Me Madam). As the princess in Paramount's new picture, Roman Holiday, the newcomer named Audrey Hepburn gives the popular old romantic nonsense a reality it has seldom had before. Amid the rhinestone glitter of Roman Holiday's make-believe, Paramount's new star sparkles and glows with the fire of a finely cut diamond. Impertinence, hauteur, sudden repentance, happiness, rebellion and fatigue supplant each other...
...minor (e.g., Coriolanus, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens), the actors were hardly more than adequate, the productions unfinished. But even so, the performances on Antioch's open-air platform stage were, in Atkinson's opinion, proof that "the sort of marshmallow Shakespeare represented by the Katharine Hepburn As You Like It a few seasons ago ... is obsolete today. For it is time we pulled loose completely from the grandiose pretensions of the 19th century style of Shakespearean producing. It is time we came face to face with the plays...
...Playwrights' Company will offer Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, starring Deborah Kerr and telling of a schoolboy falsely accused of homosexuality; Elmer Rice's The Winner; and Samuel Taylor's Sabrina Fair (already sold to the movies as a vehicle for Audrey Hepburn), featuring Barbara Bel Geddes as an American girl readjusting to life at home after three years in Paris...
...Sixteen nations, including the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., entered 29 feature films in the 14th annual Venice Film Festival. The first picture shown, Hollywood's Roman Holiday, starring Gregory Peck and Newcomer Audrey Hepburn, won bravos and prolonged applause from more than a hundred critics and notables from both sides of the Iron Curtain...