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...your Aug. 26 TV & Radio section, you reviewed with great cordiality Studio One's The Unmentionable Blues and quoted from what was obviously a superior script. However, there was no mention of the author, and it read as though [Actor] Elliott Nugent had made up the lines as he was going along. The author's name: Helen Cotton...
...dime-and it's contested every minute." Indeed, it seemed high time to trim the "Mason-Dixon line" with some low-calorie food, have his molars fixed and make a mild pass at a pretty young waitress. On such a scarred old whetstone, durable (57) Actor Elliott Nugent honed his low-pressure comedy tools last week and turned Studio One's The Unmentionable Blues into one of the more civilized comedies of the season. Looking like an older Steve Allen, Actor Nugent still exuded a trim, boyish charm, whether he was twitting himself, his wife...
Last week disaster struck. Mike Kaplan, a reporter for the trade paper Variety, after checking Nugent's credentials at the British consulate, headlined the bad news. The consulate's information officer had reported that Nugent was not listed in either Debrett's or Burke's Peerage...
With British pluck. Lord Nugent fought back. Fluttering his credentials in a TV interview, he explained that he was in Debrett's and Burke's but listed under the name of a relative, the Earl of Westmeath. Nugent further explained that his family's patriotism was the cause of all the trouble. An Irish ancestor named Walter Nugent served with other relatives in the Austrian army and was made Baron Nugent of Clonlost by the Emperor Franz Josef in 1859. When the first baron's descendants returned to England, the title was authenticated by a royal...
...would matter. Is Farouk Mr. Farouk because he lost his kingdom?" But a spokesman for Burke's ruled sternly: "Until the title is formally restored, it cannot be recognized in Britain." In Hollywood, TV Producer Jack Elliott, who is putting together the Baron Nugent-Vicki Benet series, took a meat-and-potatoes view of the case: "The show has been put off until this thing gets cleared up. We don't want to put our backers in a spot...