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Princess Elizabeth and Philip got an official worrier to take care of the grocery bills & so on. Appointed household controller and treasurer: Lieut. General Sir Frederick A. M. Browning, wartime Chief of Staff of the South East Asia Command, husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier...
...lack of discipline and inadequate rehearsing." But nothing had gone awry with the orchestra, only with the soloists. Dutch journalist Henri van Eysden had an explanation. The astonishing amnesia of two soloists in one evening could be explained only by the kind of foul play that Novelist Du Maurier put Svengali up to in Trilby. It was all the fault of a Dutch building contractor who practiced hypnosis and mental telepathy as a hobby, he said. The contractor had laid a bet that he could wreck a concert by tele-hypnosis...
Predictable Punch conforms to a pattern that most Englishmen have come to consider as much a part of England as fish, chips and the Royal Family. As in the days when Tennyson, Thackeray, George du Maurier, Sir John Tenniel and A. A. Milne were steady contributors, Punch believes in social satire and good clean fun. It rarely gets any sexier than the recent cartoon of a harassed mother rabbit snapping at a big-eared little rabbit: "Well, if you must know, you came out of a hat." Punch has usually avoided divorce, profanity, violence and prone drunks, always relished outrageous...
...Haas, who reviews 'It Happened at the Inn," seems unable to control a breakaway imagination. In discussing an innocuous, modest film he manages not only to give a short history of French and Russian motion pictures but to drag in such assorted people as Dostoievski, Gogol, Daphne du Maurier, and T. S. Eliot...
...Years Between--At the Exeter Street Theatre. This is the latest production of British film mogul J. Arthur Rank, but it has very few of the usual attributes of English pictures. Written by Daphne du Maurier, it concerns an R.A.F. captain who is presumed dead in Europe for four years, then returns in Enoch Arden fashion to friends and family. The story is told haltingly and with an overdose of sentiment, but Michael Redgrave does a fine acting job. The co-feature, Russia On Parade, is a one-hour bore about Russian "sports"-lovers...