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...quarterly Paris Review. Onetime Cineminor Joyce (Boy Trouble) Mathews, 36, a headliner in 1951 when she slashed her wrists and scared everybody by threatening a nosedive from the Manhattan apartment of Showman Billy Rose, clucked joyously of spring wedding bells for her and Billy, 56. Thrice-wed Comic George Jessel, 57, warily croaked that he has "an affectionate little ring" for unstarred Starlet Joan Tyler's engagement finger. Quipped Georgie: "It's not modern to say one is engaged...
...Panassie, "is a Chicago musician, Boyce Brown . . . He has voluminous sonority, a trenchant attack and a hot, mordant intonation." He got his first horn when he was 14, and he played in combos all over, even played at the Palace on a bill that included Eddie Cantor and George Jessel. In 1952 Boyce was working in a Chicago nightclub called Liberty Inn, and developed the habit of dropping into a nearby church in the early morning after work to listen to the cool music of the organ. Then he began to stay for Mass. He became a Roman Catholic...
...months later Harrison deserted the cheesecake field to concentrate his efforts on a new publication which he entitled Confidential. Using the expose as the basic technique, he quickly proved that his idea was a sure winner. With such stories as "Georgie Jessel's Juvenile Janes" and "Pamela--the Churchill They Only Whisper About!", Confidential managed to increase its circulation from a modest 150,000 for the first issue to the present figure of almost...
...Where Milton Berle and Arthur Godfrey had their time of glory and then fell back exhausted, Ed has thrived and grown stronger in the heat of conflict. The battleground of TV is strewn with entertainers who could not quite stay the course-Red Buttons, Wally Cox, George Jessel, Ed Wynn, Ray Bolger, Bing Crosby. Sullivan is the first to admit that any one of these entertainers makes his own talents seem dim indeed. On camera, Ed has been likened to a cigar-store Indian, the Cardiff Giant and a stone-faced monument just off the boat from Easter Island...
Staged with particular skill and verve by Robert Lewis, Witness for the Prosecution is frequently tense. And when it is not, it manages in the best English fashion to be entertainingly easygoing. In a generally good cast Patricia Jessel achieves some real acting as the enigmatic wife; and as defense lawyer, Francis Sullivan is full of delightful courtroom wiles and histrionics. All of Witness for the Prosecution is classically rendered, with no outré horrors or ultramodern gruesomeness, and with no need...