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...pretends to be a cockney slavey only to get this beguiling if hokey mystery-comedy off to a start. As Mrs. Carlye Hardwicke, an American, she owns the stately London town house, though she seems to have mislaid Mr. Hardwicke. Jack Lemmon, her tenant, is a U.S. State Department official named Bill Gridley, up from the sand lots of Saudi Arabia to the diplomatic big league of the American embassy in London. The neighbors, and Scotland Yard, have their own ideas about Mr. Hardwicke. "She killed him,"say they...
Home again from a goodwill tour of the Far East that had won her a host of new friends (TIME, Dec. 15), Britain's coltish Princess Alexandra, 25, mourned the loss of an old one-the beloved teddy bear that she had mislaid sometime during a cruise down Burma's Irrawaddy River. This week, both the Burmese Army and the R.A.F. having confessed failure in massive teddy bear hunts, someone in the royal family was bound to be shopping for a Christmas replacement for the furry creature that had been Alexandra's pillow pal since childhood...
...confesses that her "besetting sin is sloth. I'm a natural-born slob. I once mislaid a copy of the Reader's Digest in my purse." ("I," pronounces Walter Kerr with critical accuracy, "am a hell of a lot neater than she is.") She buys enough cosmetics to underwrite a television program, spends hours and fortunes at the hairdresser, but cares little for clothes, buying cut-rate bargains. She has been wearing the same grey-fur-collared cloth coat to Broadway openings for years, frequently with a button missing...
...conclusion of Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak wrote, "One day, Lara went out and did not come back. She must have been arrested in the street at that time. She vanished without a trace . . . forgotten as a nameless number on a list that afterwards got mislaid, in one of the innumerable mixed or women's concentration camps in the north." Olga Ivinskaya last week was following the course of her fictional self to the bitter...
...middle-aged associate of Eisenstein's, The Cranes Are Flying tells the story of two young students (Tatiana Samoilova and Alexei Batalov) who fall in love just before the Nazi invasion. He rushes off to the army, leaving her a letter of explanation, but the letter is mislaid, and she thinks she has been jilted. When her parents are killed in an air raid, she goes to pieces and lets herself be seduced by a no-good draft-dodger who plays the piano. She spends the rest of the picture in Siberia, nursing wounded soldiers and trying to work...