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Trio. Another helping of Somerset Maugham short stories; with James Hayter, Nigel Patrick and Jean Simmons (TIME...
Unlike "Harvey," which treated the supernatural as commonplace, "Bell, Book, and Candle" becomes self-conscious after the initial novelty wears off. The first two acts are amusing, partly because of the fine acting of Harrison and Miss Palmer, who twirls a cloak with a professional eclat. Jean Adair, Scott McKay, and Larry Gates give excellent supporting performances, and Raymond Sovey's set is atmospheric and handsome. With some careful pruning and revision, "Bell, Book, and Candle" has a good chance to make the grade on Broadway...
...General Alphonse Juin and Minister for Indo-China Jean Letourneau landed at Hanoi's Gialam airfield after the long flight from Paris, a welcoming band struck up the Marseillaise and the Thanly-Nien Hanh Khuc (the Vietnamese anthem, March of Youth). Then the two Frenchmen hurried away from martial music to study the martial setback suffered by France in northern Indo-China...
...crystal* "do what the material wants to do." The designs, said Gates, fell esthetically "somewhere between the curves of the Taj Mahal and the straight lines of the Empire State Building." From time to time they called on such outside artists as Raoul Dufy, Thomas Hart Benton, Salvador Dali, Jean Hugo and Moise Kisling. Steuben never tried to figure out what the taste of customers might be. Says Houghton loftily: "We made taste." By 1935, Steuben taste had made Steuben a success...
...first exhibition of Danish literature at Harvard, including the works of 400 years, went on display yesterday at Houghton Library. The highlight of the exhibit is a first edition of Hans Christian Anderson's "Fairy Tales" loaned to the University by screen and radio actor Jean Hersholt...