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...before. Hope is still the fumbling poltroon, this time a ham actor who masquerades as a gentleman's gentleman in England, then becomes a real valet masquerading in the Wild West as a British earl. He caricatures snobbery and braggadocio, unfailingly spills tea trays all over an English hostess, unwittingly courts death at the hands of a cowboy villain (Bruce Cabot) and becomes the prey of a pack of mongrels drafted for a sagebrush foxhunt...
...lobby afterwards, owlish Alexander Volinine, Pavlova's partner for 13 years, muttered: "Verry myzterious." A pallid Parisian hostess shuddered: "It's like looking into the souls of horrid people -the ones one walks away from." Wrote Combat's critic: "Martha, by her continuous internal tension, as in a trance, is able to communicate all the scale of human sentiments." Le Monde found that 'those naked feet lifted, brandished menacingly ... end by being an obsession." Martha Graham took this French coolness in her stride. "You see," she said, "it's a universal problem. Some like...
...Roosevelt had taken on yet another chore: come August, she will be the narrator for Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf to the kids at the Berkshire Festival. Meanwhile, landing in London after a tour of the Continent, she planted a warm buss on the cheek of her hostess, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading...
...Graham Greene, an honest trader who sells his reader a story without an ideological headache in it. With his new book, however, Author Shute trifles with reportage and comes a cropper. Traveling in Sumatra in 1949, Shute was the house guest of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. Geysel-Vonck. His hostess had been one of a party of about 80 Dutch women & children taken by the Japanese at Padang in 1942 and thereafter marched round Sumatra for 2% years. Mrs. Geysel was one of fewer than 30 survivors of the 1,200-mile trek. Her story, and Shute's admiration...
Best drawn of the bunch is bored, bulky, candy-crazy Hostess Harries herself, whose fingers ache so much from signing checks that she abbreviates her signature to "Mgt Harries." She would like to divorce her Republican husband, who turns blood-red at the very mention of Eugene Debs, but "it is too much trouble," she says, "and besides, I need him to manage the servants...