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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Blow Ye Winds, with William Holden and Celeste Holm...
...than prolongs the agony. The whole story, being almost as involved as it is predictable needs two or three buildup scenes for every one that proves at all entertaining. In spots, Verneuil fans Affairs with fairly lively comments about life and breezy cackle about Washington; as the bride, Celeste Holm is deft and bright when not forced to be coy; as the scheming old statesman, Reginald Owen is urbanity itself. But neither play nor production comes to much as a whole...
Broadway seemed determined to start the season off in high gear. Opening month last year saw only one production, but September 1950 will have five: James Bridie's long-run London hit Daphne Laureola, Louis Verneuil's Affairs of State with Celeste Holm, Owen Crump's Southern Exposure, Lesley Storm's Black Chiffon, another London import, and Drama Critic (The New Yorker) Wolcott Gibbs's Season...
Only rarely has surgery sought to come between Siamese twins while both were living. Where several organs are shared, surgery is impossible. In simpler cases the twins are often in circuses, dependent on their deformity for a living, and refuse the operation. In 1925, Dr. Hillard Herman Holm of Glencoe, Minn, successfully separated twin girls. One died at twelve, of a heart ailment; one is still living and well. But each successful operation has been matched by one or more failures...
...Celeste Holm, as the vixen whom the hucksters use to trip up Colman, is much better than her material, but Actor Price, wallowing in an outrageously flamboyant role, outhams Orson Welles. For a while, radio's Quizmaster Art (People Are Funny) Linkletter, a toothy paragon of commercial insincerity, seems an inspired choice for an obnoxious giveaway M.C. But then the script switches about and tries to palm him off as a sympathetic character. Having blunted its point throughout, the picture finally tosses it away altogether by having Colman sell out to Price in a deal that gives...