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Audience Reaction. In Miami, Mrs. Ethel Sue Kaye sued for divorce, charged that her disc-jockey husband criticized her cooking on the air, referred to their "socalled honeymoon...
...than the movies are. Listeners were asked to visualize a firelit room, shaded lamps, a deep-cushioned sofa and a shakerful of Martinis. Against a background of Tchaikovsky, they eavesdropped on Cary Grant and Actress Betsy Drake (his wife both in radio and life), reminiscing about their courtship and honeymoon. Producer-Writer Nat Wolff (who is getting "dialogue assists" from Actress Drake) wants to picture "a very attractive couple in the $25,000-a-year class...the kind of people we'd like most to be." The show will contain "no platforms, no politics, no message." Nothing, in fact...
...outstanding offender is the book. The show offers less a new version than a misguided variation of the Amphitryon story. Jupiter (George Jongeyans) covets a young American girl on her honeymoon, while son Mercury (William Redfield) is under orders to snare her to Greece, and wife Juno (Charlotte Greenwood) is hot on Jupiter's trail down the slopes of Olympus. With its studious smut and clanging innuendoes, the whole thing is far more down-to-earth than even Jupiter's expedition would license. The librettists apparently fashioned their jests for audiences whose idea of sophistication is not believing...
...first few days under censorship, the blue pencils were light and copy flowed along smoothly. But at week's end the honeymoon ended. Eighth Army Headquarters in Korea ordered NBC's Kenneth Kantor and U.P.'s Peter Webb confined to quarters for a "gross security violation" in disclosing prematurely the death of Lieut. General Walton Walker in a jeep accident (see WAR IN ASIA). Full field censorship was ordered for all press copy, and telephones used by newsmen covering Eighth Army Headquarters were removed...
Favorite exhibit on a floating waxworks plying the rivers and canals of Belgium and France: a Pullman car scene, labeled "Honeymoon in Arizona," with Mickey Rooney in an upper berth, Judy Garland in a lower, both gazing at some painted Indians...