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Though they are a vanishing breed, there are still those around here who pitch pennies in the spring, walk through puddles instead of around them, and go to film adaptations of Rudyard Kipling. They will enjoy "Kim" tremendously.
The movie keeps fairly close to Kipling's original plot. Kim is the orphaned son of a British officer in India, who roams around as an Indian boy "because they send white boys to school." As the helper of a traveling Lama, Kim becomes involved in the Great Game: Injuh...
If (Perry Como; Victor, 45 r.p.m.). Como gives his usual relaxed treatment to a climbing new ballad (no kin to Kipling's If) that sounds a little like the old wedding favorite, Because.
"There has been two outstanding bestsellers in my 25 years slum bookselling. They are [Rider Haggard's] King Solomon's Mines and [Marie Corelli's] The Sorrows of Satan . . . The bestselling poetry is still Browning and [Rupert] Brooke . . . My worst sellers are cookery books. My bestselling author...
Fred's Diary (1921-50) is at once an abbreviated record of Bason's daily life and a rung-by-rung account of his climb to Cockney notoriety. By dint of hanging around theater exits with an autograph album and writing very polite letters to celebrities, young Fred...