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Temporarily at least, Clift and Douglas have run away from such other promising newcomers as Arthur Kennedy, Richard Basehart, Robert Ryan, John Lund, Farley Granger, Louis Jourdan, Ricardo Montalban and Christopher Kent. One who has not been left behind is Melchor Ferrer (no kin to Broadway's Jose), an experienced actor. His performance in Lost Boundaries, as the Negro doctor who secretly crosses the color line, is one of the year's best. Scarcely a newcomer, but definitely a comer, is Richard Widmark. It took two years and three pictures for 20th Century-Fox to dilute the Widmark...
...uncle's art business, Howard Young Galleries. Her mother, Sara Sothern Taylor, once had a good part in a 1922 Broadway production of Channing Pollock's The Fool. Elizabeth grew up to seven in a handsome London house, and in a 15th Century lodge in Kent. Her family got around in art, literary and political circles...
Like lay brothers in a religious house, Kent Schoolboys do most of the work around their establishment themselves. They make beds, wait tables, do kitchen duty, scrub floors. Another part of the Kent pattern since its founding in a Connecticut farmhouse 43 years ago by Father Frederick H. Sill: a headmaster drawn from the Episcopal (and monastic) Order of the Holy Cross...
...husband (Van Heflin), a dull-witted country doctor, Emma discovers an ideal cuckold. Thereafter her course is clear: the well-beaten path from boredom to eroticism to ruin. When she learns at last that her lovers-a handsome philandering landowner (Louis Jourdan) and a petty law clerk (Christopher Kent) -are only men of clay, when she has lost the love of her child and squandered the family fortune, Emma takes the bitter way out: arsenic, agony and death...
...Frank Woolley of Kent, another of the game's immortals, Cardus writes: "His cricket is compounded of soft airs and fresh flavors. The bloom of the year is on it [and] the very brevity of summer is in it ... Woolley, so the statisticians tell us, often plays a long innings. But time's a cheat . . . The brevity in Woolley's batting is a thing of pulse and spirit, not to be checked by clocks, but only to be apprehended by imagination. He is always about to lose his wicket; his runs are thin-spun ... An innings...