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...royalty, and breathed a happy sigh of relief when at last the royal one escapes into a commoner's arms (Olivia de Havilland and a handsome pilot in 1943's Princess O'Rourke; Vera-Ellen and a tap-dancing reporter in 1953's Call Me Madam). As the princess in Paramount's new picture, Roman Holiday, the newcomer named Audrey Hepburn gives the popular old romantic nonsense a reality it has seldom had before. Amid the rhinestone glitter of Roman Holiday's make-believe, Paramount's new star sparkles and glows with...
...nights a week. It rises from a huge, floodlit, green and yellow tent, home of Lambertville's Music Circus. Under the big top (where there is room for 1,500) the attractions are Broadway shows (with good second-string casts) such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Call Me Madam, and such vintage operettas as Sweethearts, New Moon and Die Fledermaus. Last week, the Music Circus put on view a frothy revival of Orpheus in the Underworld, by Jacques Offenbach. The new title: To Hell with Orpheus...
...Pitiless and overwhelming . . ." Yet, as a play, Sheba was not a success. It ran only 90 performances, far below par in a year containing such hit, such hits as The Happy Time, Guys and Dolls, Call Me Madam, The Member of the Wedding and The Cocktail Party. But Shirley's Lola had a haunting effect on playgoers that lasted beyond the fall of the final curtain. Shirley captured every acting award in sight (New York Drama Critics' Circle, Antoinette Perry, Newspaper Guild, Donaldson, Barter). In the movie version of Sheba, she broke all precedents by winning the coveted...
...main movement, the picture has all the drive of a .45 slug, but the comic interludes are mostly misfires. Paulette Goddard is agreeably bummy as an affluent madam, and Porter Hall, as one of the witnesses (an undertaker on a spree), firmly supports many a shaky scene with his main comic device: an almost completely absent chin. Edward G. Robinson is as monotonous and entertaining as ever. An actor who has developed well-nigh infinite modulations of the sneer, Robinson, after 30 years of practice, has at last produced his masterpiece. In Vice Squad, he displays a sneer so spectacular...
...Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman sparkplugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical about a lady ambassador (TIME, March...