Word: linda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hinsdale, Ill., Summer Theater: Linda Darnell in the Kaufmann-Ferber comedy, The Royal Family...
Donald Cerulli and Rennie Brown are properly pompous and gossipy as family hangers-on and Linda Avitabile, though less successful as Fanny Cavendish, has her moments. Alvin Cohen is evidence that a good actor will make something thorough even out of a non-speaking bit part...
Columbia dips into Donizetti's over flowing old trunk of 70-odd operas and comes up with a 3-LP recording of Linda di Chamounix (mono). Written late in the composer's life, the work has a good deal of facile melody, and Antonietta Stella, Renato Capecchi and Cesare Valletti give it a rousing performance. But the libretto, which has to do with a girl driven mad when wrongly accused of being a wanton, is enough to shake anybody but the staunchest Donizetti...
Washburn's characters are solidly amusing. In the part of Jack, Richard Dozier performs with gusto and vehemence. And Mikel Lambert, in her farewell to the Harvard stage, draws a neat little caricature as his hollowing wife. Other sketches are by Swan, Schwartz, and Griffin, again, and by Linda Gerstenfeld...
Modern pressagents are effete, Variety complained not long ago, but last week the boys seemed determined to disprove the horrendous charge. During the shooting of Bing Crosby's Say One for Me, platoons of short-skirted, black-stockinged extras served champagne to the press. Linda Darnell got herself Page One hypnotized to learn a part. And Brigitte Bardot announced she is going to Moscow for the premiere of her forthcoming movie (in which she is fully clothed from first reel to last). Finally, the Motion Picture Division of U.C.L.A. invited Elizabeth Taylor to be a guest lecturer. Her subject...