Word: joans
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21st Precinct (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS Radio) makes an effective half-hour of police drama (from Manhattan files), but loses a lot of sting from its resemblance to NBC's Dragnet (from Los Angeles iles). In its favor, the new show has Actors Everett Sloane and Joan Lorring and Director-Writer Stanley (Gangbusters) Niss, an expert at creating minor personalities. 21st Precinct captures the sounds and scenes of everyday police work; the characters are all underplayed, just like Dragnet (which pretty much originated that school of radio acting, and has lately begun underplaying its own underplaying). Unsponsored...
...Another Chaplin ex-protegee, 33-year-old Joan Berry, who won a 1946 paternity suit against the comedian, was admitted to Patton State Hospital (for the mentally ill) after she was found walking the streets barefoot, carrying a pair of baby sandals and a child's ring, and murmuring: "This is magic...
...desperate. They had concluded that Shirley simply could not handle the role. They were chiefly upset by her stock-company approach to rehearsals: she merely walked through the part, mumbling her lines. Tearing their hair, Inge and Mann begged the Theatre Guild to get rid of Shirley and hire Joan Blondell in her place. Then, on the fourth day, Shirley was suddenly "off the book." She began playing with such intensity and finesse that Inge and Mann hastily changed their minds. In Westport, Sheba was a hit. Theater people poured up from Manhattan to shout bravos at the leading lady...
...einen Pfennig mir" ("I'll tell you a verse; you give me a penny.") Customers have flocked to him: schoolchildren who need help on their homework, and adults who want the words of the latest song. Huett has answered everything from "What happens in Schiller's Joan of Arc?" to "Recite some verses from Wilhelm Busch's Max und Moritz," has even been known to recite a geometric theorem or two. About the only question that has stumped him: "What is the size of a kangaroo at birth...
...Married. Joan Douglas Dillon, 18, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to France Clarence Douglas Dillon; and James Brady Moseley, 22, Harvard junior and son of a Manhattan broker; in Paris. After civil and religious ceremonies, some 600 guests attended a Mass celebrated in the Madeleine by the Rev. Pierre Couturier, known as "the Picasso Priest," for his patronage of modern French religious...