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Royal Wedding (MGM) illustrates what is wrong with most splashy Techni-colored cinemusicals-and how entertaining they can sometimes be in spite...
...film lacks the pace and style of a good Broadway show (or of MGM's own On the Town). Its songs & dances serve merely as interludes in the kind of plot that cinemagoers know too well. But within these tired limits, the movie offers some amusing comedy, expert staging of individual numbers, bright lyrics by Alan Jay (Brigadoon) Lerner and, best of all, Fred Astaire who, at 51, has never danced with greater skill or ingenuity...
Soon after 5 p.m. (1 p.m. P.C.T.) the CRIMSON learned from the director of MGM publicity in Los Angeles that Miss Taylor had left the bust with the Boston MGM office...
Crimson Business Manager William S. Holbrook III, announced last night that the organization would bill MGM for all expenses incurred in tracking down the bust. The statue had been placed in a niche in the Crimson "Sanctum" as a memorial for Fall, who was President of the daily...
Holbrook said that although he believed the film corporation would pay the CRIMSON bill without trouble, the CRIMSON would bring court action against MGM if it didn't. No action against the Lampoon was planned, since the humor magazine's actions were regarded as a joke, Holbrook stated. But, he claimed, MGM derived publicity benefits from not notifying the CRIMSON that the stolen property was in its possession in Boston...