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Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). The Kimballs, with Boris Karloff, Vanessa Brown...
With the nomination of Ruiz Cortínez, the solid citizens of PRI's leadership swung away from the flashy playboyism of handsome Miguel Alemán. Greying, frail and 58, with a strong facial resemblance to Boris Karloff (his nickname is Cara de Calavera-Skullface), Ruiz Cortínez is a far cry from the magnetic type traditionally admired by Mexicans. Said a political reporter last week, "Mexico is now going to get a Coolidge...
Other than Vaclav Trojan's excellent background music, the original production had no sound track, but Boris Karloff's dubbed-in narration helps to supplement and to speed up the action in the few spots that the film drags. Unfortunately, the lines sometimes draw attention away from the intricate, beautiful movements of the puppet actors...
...John Pratt, 75, brother of Hollywood's horror specialist, Boris Karloff,* had a distinguished, 27-year career in the British Foreign Service in China, was knighted in 1929, retired in 1938. From 1939 until 1941 he was head of the Ministry of Information's Far East Section, in 1948 was appointed to the nonpaying job of Foreign Office representative on the Universities' China Committee-a nonpolitical body which selects Chinese students wishing to attend British universities...
...Karloff's real name: William Henry Pratt...