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Another of our London correspondents, Joan Bruce, spent Tuesday working on two music stories. One was on Sir William Walton's first opera. Troilus and Cressida (see Music). She was digging up background on the composer and his music so that the writer in New York would have this information before the premiere in Covent Garden. This done, she got ready to go to Leicestershire to track down a lead on a story that looked like a good bet for TIME'S Music section in the future...
Flutterings & Squeals. Even the actors had a bad time of it last week. Milton Berle, Red Buttons and Joan Blondell were all rushed to bed suffering variously from overwork, strep throats and virus infections. CBS Newsman Ed Murrow, scheduled to appear as host on NBC's Producers' Showcase in honor of the Overseas Press Club, announced that he couldn't make it because of "contractual conflict," a phrase that the industry read to mean CBS displeasure...
...drama front, things were nearly as sticky. Betty Furness left her refrigerators long enough to fly to Hollywood to replace ailing Joan Blondell in Let's Face It, with Bert Lahr and Vivian Elaine. She might more sensibly have remained in Manhattan. On NBC. Kraft TV Theater's adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma was so filled with feminine squeals, flutterings on tiptoe and elfin men that it seemed to be played by an entire company of Mary Kays and Johnnies; on ABC, Kraft had better luck with Run for the Money, featuring Jamie Smith and Phyllis...
...Cream & Ginger Ale. If everybody could be as happy as, say, Joan Crawford, Dr. Cooper would have much less work to do. Last week Cinemactress Crawford described life with her six-year-old dog Cliquot, a Harjes poodle. Cliquot, she says, was always happy when she was at the glamorous studios, like M-G-M and Warner Bros. But at Republic Pictures, a horse-opera factory, Cliquot was sad. "He chewed up a carpet," said Joan. "He swallowed 5½ yards of string. He usually eats white meat of chicken, ground sirloin, ice cream and ginger ale. He wears custom...
...also have a parakeet," added Joan, "named Crazy Crawford." But parakeets (like Peter Lorre's pet sea gull that recently suffered a broken wing) have their own special emotional problems...