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Manhattan tabloids happily headlined the latest installment of the big Billy Rose-Eleanor Holm domestic serial. The last chapter had featured Eleanor suing for temporary alimony, asking for a reported $1,250 a week, and actually getting $700 plus the use of their Beekman Place town house, on which she changed the locks. Last week it was Billy's turn for the big type...
...Three two-week productions of the New York City Drama Festival: Ibsen's The Wild Duck, with Maurice Evans and Diana Lynn; Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, with Celeste Holm; Clemence Dane's Come of Age, with Judith Anderson...
...July when Broadway Showman Billy Rose tried to suppress the news that blonde Joyce Mathews, divorced wife of Milton Berle, had attempted suicide in his Ziegfeld Theater apartment (TIME, July 23). Last week he was in trouble again. The scene was the same. His wife, former Olympic Swimmer Eleanor Holm, equipped with camera and a private detective at her side, raided the stronghold, found her husband "not alone." With this evidence, she retired to their Beekman Place town house and bolted the doors. When Rose appeared, in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac, photographers banged away at the blinking, bewildered husband...
...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...
What was basically a hackneyed plot--boy has girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back--is saved by a play within a play. Director John C. Wilson has combined the best scenes from "The Taming of the Shrew" with Porter's music and some exciting choreography by Hanya Holm to make a highly entertaining show. Lemuel Ayers' costumes and settings are not only magnificent but give the production a light pastel touch which keeps it from being the usually garish musical comedy...