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...veteran actor's face as he hugged his son during a break on the Hollywood set. John Ethan Wayne, 8, had just stolen a scene during the filming of The Million-Dollar Kidnaping in the role of grandson to his real father, John Wayne, 63, and Actress Maureen O'Hara. Said Richard Boone, cast as the leader of the bandits who kidnap the boy: "Duke, you and I know acting's hard, but nobody told the boy-he just went in there...
...play focuses on a famed ex-songstress named Evy (Maureen Stapleton), who has succumbed to the demons of alcoholism and nymphomania. She has just come home from a drying-out session at a sanatorium. Will she or will she not hit the bottle and the bed again? This is the basic situation, and it is weak, in that the audience knows that she will, or there would be no play. Evy's two closest friends want to be loyal watchdogs, but their own shaky personalities make them abettors of despair. One is a middle-aged homosexual actor (Michael Lombard...
...play is perilously close to it-an unsettling kind of comic tearjerker. The various relationships are scarcely credible. It is impossible to believe that anyone as self-centered as the Von Furstenberg character could have nursed Evy through drinking bout after drinking bout, as she claims to have done. Maureen Stapleton gives a high-strung, neurotically personal performance, but we can never relate the woman onstage with the poster on the wall that says she once sang in Carnegie Hall. The Evy before us might be a suburban housewife in a severe funk. Stapleton's hysteria is totally convincing...
Born. To Ringo Starr, 30, Beatle drummer now making it on his own as a country-and-western blues singer, and Maureen Cox Starr, 24, onetime Liverpool hairdresser: their third child, first daughter, Lee; in London...
...player to win the U.S. men's singles since Bill Tilden did it in 1929 at age 36. By winning the women's singles title, Mrs. Margaret Smith Court became the first woman to complete tennis' grand slam-the Australian, French, British and American championships-since Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly turned the trick...