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...Frank Sinatra is currently in more demand than any other performer. His portrayal of Private Maggio in From Here to Eternity, which won him an Academy Award last year, burst on the public a new and fiercely burning star. To the amazement of millions, the boudoir johnny with the lotion tones stood revealed as a naturalistic actor of narrow but deep-cutting talents. He played what he is, The Kid from Hoboken, but he played him with rage and tenderness and grace, and he glinted in the barrel of human trash as poetically as an empty...
...employees-and occasionally on eyewitness accounts by those who have left the royal household. On all such journalistic works the palace frowns. Last year, after an ex-valet to the Duke of Edinburgh wrote for the Sunday Pictorial that Philip wears long underwear in the winter, and uses a lotion to retard the thinning of his hair, Press Secretary Colville put his foot down. To the British Press Council went a stern note: "You will, I am sure, readily agree that the Queen is entitled to expect that her family will attain the privacy at home which all other families...
...Lady of Larkspur Lotion is a better example of Williams and receives a more polished performance. Illustrating the author's favorite theme of the decadent southern belle, the sketch tempers its seediness with fine touches of whimsy. Elinor Fuchs, as Mrs. Hardwick-Moore, plays an earlier outline of Streetcar's Blanche Dubois, handling both her southern accent and temperament without extravagance. Equally adept is Bob Golden, as The Writer. Patricia Leatham is perhaps too intense for a landlady, yet her performance does not mar the best production on the Workshop's program...
Perhaps the main complaint to be leveled at the Workshop's first production is the general dreariness of the selections, although both The Purification and The Lady of Larkspur Lotion contain excellent moments. If Williams is hard to take in such large doses, however, the Workshop has demonstrated its ability to handle difficult material. The three plays, which will receive their final two performances today, are a promising start...
...mention of race is taboo. One hair-lotion manufacturer wanted to begin a commercial: "Attention Negro women!" but was promptly turned down. The station manager knew any such blatant approach would alienate listeners...