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...course, that's just a mite unfair. Tchin-Tchin isn't quite so toheap as my prototype: its specific stars are Margaret Leighton and Anthony Quinn-Quinn; its director is Peter Glenville (who has directed Separate Tables and, more recently, Becket). And it also has two very funny scenes at the end of the first and second acts in which Margaret Leighton has, respectively, her first drink and the trembles...
...Delmar Leighton. Master of Dudley House, has turned over several rooms in Wigglesworth for unplaced freshmen who left Harvard before they became affiliated with any House. This pool of six men is being distributed among the Houses which are not overcrowded. Leighton uses four entries in Wigglesworth to house commuters, in addition to rooms in Appley Court, Dudley, and the cooperatives...
Died. The Rev. Dr. John Leighton Stuart, 86, one of the ablest of the Old China Hands and the last U.S. ambassador on the mainland (1946-53), a spare, scholarly Presbyterian missionary who in 1919 founded China's No. 1 Christian university, American-endowed Yenching, and saw this center of Western learning in the Orient survive Japanese occupation only to become a Marxist-Leninist thought factory; in Washington, D.C. Chosen as ambassador by President Truman's special envoy, General George Marshall, Stuart vainly attempted to bring about a peaceful settlement between China's warring Communists and Nationalists...
...Other credits: San Francisco Banker Derek Parmenter's retreat was done by Designer John Garden Campbell, and the glass-walled pavilion near Inverness, Calif., by Francis E. Leighton. Lily Saarinen's Cape Cod cabin is by Olav Hammarstrom, the Pound Ridge home of John Straus by Edward L. Barnes, and Burton Tremaine's house in Madison, Conn., was converted by Philip C. Johnson...
Everybody in Hollywood will soon be claiming that he is this or that character in Banderol, since the play centers around a studio production boss and was written by Dore Schary, ex-production boss at M-G-M (Oct. 9). Anthony Quinn and Margaret Leighton star in an adaptation of François Billetdoux's Tchin-Tchin (the word equals hello or goodbye, like ciao in Italian), a tale about lovers who meet as a result of a love affair between his wife and her husband (Oct. 18) A limited-run production of Sheridan's The School...