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Given the success of his three previous novels (The Other, Harvest Home, Lady), Tryon is likely to draw quite a house. Crowned Heads reels off four novellas about imaginary film stars: Fedora, a mysteriously ageless movie queen; Lorna Doone, a onetime "All-American cookie" who has begun to crumble; Bobby Ransome, a former child star with growing pains; and Willie Marsh, an elegant old leading man with some shabby private habits. Though the paths of these four characters have sometimes crossed, their stories are chiefly linked by the book's epigraph, which Tryon has lifted from Shakespeare...
...final London performances in 1969, Judy Garland faltered so badly that some members of the audience pelted her with bread rolls. Last week, when Singer Lorna Luft, 23, Judy's daughter and Actress Liza Minnelli's half sister, came to play the London Palladium, it was the critics who did the bombarding. The London Times found her "a not particularly talented performer who tries hard enough but against impossible odds." What she lacks, said the Guardian, "is that bruised-by-life quality you find in most top female vocalists" -a failing that the British critics seemed anxious...
...serves only to accentuate the petty and bitter world of Ben Butley's academia. The direction is totally unobtrusive--which is exactly as it should be in a small and personal play of this sort. Credit must also be given to the supporting cast of Nicole Francois, Christina Keefe, Lorna Koski, Ray Pierre-Humbert, and Bob Morgan...
...Lorna Sarrel said last night that she and her husband, Dr. Philip Sarrel, both advisers to the Committee, thought that most advisers objected to both photographs equally, not because they were improper, but because they might engender a negative reaction to the entire book...
...Lorna Sarrel said only one doctor objected just to the picture of the male...