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...exaggerations of acting in the minor roles. In the meantime, Ouida must straighten out the story line, which now leaves justice inexplicably triumphant in the last act. Certainly the present state of Sherlock Holmes, with the sole assets of Steward Chaney's sets and the charming, if superfluous Mme. Novotna, will not satisfy Doyle addicts, who have waited since the days of William Gillete for Holmes' return to the stage...
...Lecture Hall (Sat. 7:30 p.m., NBC). Mme. Pandit, U.N. General Assembly president, talks on India...
...cold, distant figure when he arrived in Saigon and took steps to make himself inconspicuous and to avoid the press. With his chic blonde wife (a descendant of Joachim Murat, the Napoleonic King of Naples), he moved into the rambling residence of the commander in chief. ("Why," exclaimed Mme. Navarre when she first saw the big place, "it's like a railway station!") For weeks he toured the vast conglomerations of forts, villages, roadblocks, airfields and remote outposts which pass for "battle lines" in a war where there has never been a well-defined front. A master at assembling...
Senator Margaret Smith has long made me ashamed of my sex, as have many of her sisters in Washington and the public eye. They seem to pattern themselves after Mme. Defarge. Women were supposed to improve the world when we got the vote, but we seem to be more bloodthirsty than men . . . not one woman now in Congress has poured oil on the troubled waters of the world storm or denounced our foreign policy of expediency...
...above Bretigny airport outside Paris, Mme. Jacqueline Auriol, 36, spirited daughter-in-law of French President Vincent Auriol, nosed a Mystere II French jet fighter into a near-vertical dive, cracked the sound barrier at 687.5 m.p.h. to become the world's second woman (after U.S. Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran) to outrun sound. Acclaimed as tine gaillarde (a bold one) by her male colleagues, she reportedly was just warming up for an assault on the women's regulation-course record (652.552 m.p.h.) taken from her last May by Flyer Cochran...