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...wife is Actress Caterina Largo, who possesses, among other things, "a behind stuffed with the golden fleece of erotic dreams for the Mediterranean peoples," and shoulders so flawless that they "reminded Swedish men of winter nights in boarding schools, and English women of golden hockey captains." Their director, Albert McCobb, is a grotesque gourmand who is devoted to Roquefort cheese but spurns Danish blue because it is "non-ewe." McCobb may remind some readers of Alfred Hitchcock-just as an actor named Chuck Moses may be reminiscent of Charlton Heston. But the similarity is coincidental; there are no such persons...
...Bronek's Cheer-when he suddenly begins getting threatening messages and attempts are made on his life. Suspense survives for a time amid the farce, then separates like fragments from a grenade. What Condon fans will enjoy are his extravagant prose arias, including the account of a typical McCobb breakfast. For rhapsodic and inventive list making* it is unequaled by anything since the Glass family's medicine cabinet in Franny and Zooey...
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC). Ned McCobb's Daughter, with Miriam Hopkins and Anthony Quinn...
...Theatre Guild was the most important single influence on the U. S. theatre. It may have fallen for artiness, but it also recognized art. An organization which, during its first ten years, produced Heartbreak House, Liliom, Back to Methuselah, R. U. R., The Adding Machine, Saint Joan, Processional, Ned McCobb's Daughter, Right You Are If You Think You Are and Strange Interlude could well be pleased with itself...
Married. Leopoldine ("Polly") Elaine Damrosch, Manhattan Junior Leaguer, pianist, daughter of Conductor Walter Johannes Damrosch and Mrs. (Margaret Elaine) Damrosch, granddaughter of the late great presidential Candidate James Gillespie Elaine; and Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Swords, They Knew What They Wanted, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Silver Cord), divorced husband of the late Clare Jennes Eames, U. S. actress who died two months ago in England (TIME, Nov. 17); in Manhattan. Ceremony was performed by the Rev. Frank Heino Damrosch...