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...Ransom! (M-G-M). The ransom that is intended to purchase the life of a kidnaped child is more likely to buy his death. The logic of this statement is inescapable: with the cash in hand, the criminals no longer need the child alive for possible use as an instrument of extortion, and in fact they are much better off with him dead if he is old enough to bear witness against them. Furthermore, a kidnaper faces the death penalty in many states, so what difference does a murder make...
...Blackboard Jungle (M-G-M...
...Tomorrow (M-G-M). "It is better to light one candle," somebody said last year in heartfelt testimonial to Lillian Roth's bestselling autobiography of an alcoholic, "than to curse the darkness." It may be so. In any case, there is not much sense in lighting a smudge pot. This picture, based on the book, is perhaps not so murky as all that, but it certainly will not brighten the corner where...
Comedian & Playwright. With both an actress and an American among her recent predecessors, Princess-elect Kelly should have no difficulties with her royal in-laws in a country that is not much larger than the M-G-M lot. The Kelly family tree is, in its way, quite as colorful as Rainier's line. Jack Kelly is the son of a County Mayo farmer who emigrated to Philadelphia and begat a large and boisterous family. Two of Jack's brothers became famous in the theater: Walter ("The Virginia Judge") was a celebrated vaudeville comedian and George...
...Diane (M-G-M). Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566) was one of the greatest of Frenchwomen. "She animated a century," says a French biographer. "She created a style." A woman of rare beauty, she was the mistress of a king (Henry II) 20 years her junior, and held his love until he died. In a day when woman's place was in the home, she ruled France well and wisely for more than a decade (1547-59). A patroness of the arts, she was the muse of Jean Goujon, whose finest statue is a portrait of Diane...